Quotes About Government

Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.

The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

Constitution is for the people, people are not for the constitution. Change it for the betterment of the common man.

Democracy can survive anything except Democrats

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.

There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare.