Quotes About Government

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will.

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

I am going to eliminate every unnecessary job-killing regulation. They're choking our businesses to death.

Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he didn't have to pay anything if he didn't make it.

The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.

The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.

Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.

The legislator should keep two things constantly before his eyes: 1. The pure theory developed to its minutest details; 2. The particular condition of actual things which he designs to reform.

The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.

Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.

Policy changes like what you desire come from our politicians. So let them know what you think.

It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.

Changing the course of destiny, so I'm strapped with weaponry cause the government don't give a f-k about protecting me.

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.

I shall not rest until, once again, the destinies of our people and our party are joined together again in victory at the next general election Labour in its rightful place in government again.

Alliances are part of our destiny as a nation, part of our future as a nation and this is what guides me in my policy, what guides my government as a whole.

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.

Social security has enabled people to retire with dignity and overwhelmingly not be in poverty. We have to keep it solvent.

There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state.