Quotes About Government

The House and Senate also passed a joint

If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.

in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with the effect of its being made an instrument of intimidation, corruption, and delusion, for the support of depredation and oppression in the hands of governments.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

This is what should be meant by people power. The power for people to choose which of the government's petty, silly, pointless laws they want to obey. And which they don't.

new technologies are going to make the airwaves "so abundant that there would be no justification for the government to ration access to spectrum or to give some services priority over others."46 In the near future, everyone will be able to share Earth's abundant free air waves, communicating with each other for nearly free, just as we will share the abundant free energy of the sun, wind, and geothermal heat.

When you first go on duty at CIA headquarters, you raise your hand and swear an oath—not to government, not to the agency, not to secrecy. You swear an oath to the Constitution. So there's this friction, this emerging contest between the obligations and values that the government asks you to uphold, and the actual activities that you're asked to participate in.

Our politicians are more fearful of the politics of terrorism—of the charge that they do not take terrorism seriously—than they are of the crime itself.

Obama was particularly offended, as he put it, that "the National Security Agency has been spying on Americans without judicial approval." Justifying

It must have been worth while having a mere ordinary plague now and then in London to get rid of both the lawyers and the Parliament.

You get yourself born, says the German Government to the German citizen, we do the rest. Indoors and out of doors, in sickness and in health, in pleasure and in work, we will tell you what to do, and we will see to it that you do it. Don't you worry yourself about anything. And the German doesn't.

GOVERNMENT BIG ENOUGH TO SUPPLY EVERYTHING YOU NEED IS BIG ENOUGH TO TAKE EVERYTHING YOU

The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

He said the government was always listening and that anything you had to say you should say in person.

I could write for days about the disappointment of politics.

An ignorant orange grifter was elected president and turned science denial into official government position.

How can we tax people for not buying a product from a website that doesn't work?

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

Since separation precludes financial support or special privilege from government, the churches are free to engage in prophetic criticism of the government and to work for social justice.

Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.

In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.

There will be more coming afterwards if we don't re-empower politicians to get organized and work together.