Quotes About Government

She wrote well, in the standard, scholarly legal fashion of long sentences filled with large words. But she was clear. She avoided the double-talk and legal lingo most students strive so desperately for. She would never make it as an attorney employed by the United States Government.

Cuando duermes, engañas al sistema. El tiempo del sueño te pertenece a ti y no al Estado.

The taxpayers are getting screwed by Congress and the Department of Education.

oust a legitimate government in alliance with its rebels could be justified.

because the regent's power was limited by the terms of the treaty of Haddington.

and to bolster the legitimacy of her reign in her own country.

The entitlement state of mind has created a nation that looks to the government for the answer to our problems, when the only answer is, "Our Father which art in heaven.

There is little discipline in government, in school, in the home, or in most individuals. The rebellion against authority is also alive in the apostate church that has thrown discipline overboard and no longer mentions the necessity of submitting to spiritual and civil leadership. The alternative to discipline is mayhem where the nation has become an asylum, and the inmates are in charge.

America is ensnared in self-indulgence and its future hangs in the balance. Our moral and spiritual foundations are rapidly being destroyed. Our arrogance is producing a socialist state that is becoming our god. The entitlement state of mind has created a nation that looks to the government for the answer to our problems, when the only answer is, "Our Father which art in heaven.

A fascist is anyone who, seeing a man working hard and earning money, says, He's getting more than we are, let's pass a law to take it away from him!

Beware: the Government Is Armed and Dangerous.

Should an individual or a government use force at all, even in retaliation? Clearly yes; complete pacifism is self-defeating.

The nearest approach to a libertarian government was the government of the United States at the time of its inception.

Democracy is essentially government by the majority, and a majority may be stupid, unenlightened, foolish, misled, and corrupt.

The only government tolerated by libertarians is one that exercises only retaliatory use of force on anyone who initiates the use of force against anyone else within its borders.

A law is not good merely because the legislature wills it, but the legislature has the mortal duty to will only that which is good.

What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support the Nicaraguan rebel forces after Congress has restricted such aid; they don't want their presidents to deceive their wives but they don't mind if their presidents deceive Congress—lie to the people and violate the people's constitution!

If or when there's another plague, I hope America has a better plague president than Ronald Reagan," the

THE PRESIDENT IS ELECTED TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION; TO PUT THAT MORE BROADLY, HE'S CHOSEN TO UPHOLD THE LAW—HE'S NOT GIVEN A LICENSE TO OPERATE ABOVE THE LAW, HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE OUR EXAMPLE!" Remember that? Remember then?

What do Americans know about morality? They don't want their presidents to have penises but they don't mind if their presidents covertly arrange to support the Nicaraguan rebel forces after Congress has restricted such aid; they don't want their presidents to deceive their wives but they don't mind if their presidents deceive Congress—lie to the people and violate the people's constitution!

Among the many objects to which a wise and free people find it necessary to direct their attention, that of providing for their safety seems to be the first.

Too many in your state [Pennsylvania], as in this [New York], love pure democracy dearly. They seem not to consider that pure democracy, like pure rum, easily produces intoxication, and with it a thousand mad pranks and fooleries.

Providence has given to our people the choice of their ruler, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers. John Jay First Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.