Quotes About Government

An attack on public education is an attack on democracy.

And, cuts in education, scientific research and the rest are harmful, and they are what are affected by the sequestration.

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college education often takes the form of loans, both private and from the government.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

The fact that the federal government is the nation's greatest environmental villain has not stopped activists from reflexively turning to politicians to "protect the environment."

At least if we don't close down the Environmental Protection Agency, we at least put a snaffle bit on them and ride the pony down.

We should always measure a government's environmental rhetoric against its environmental record

The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.

Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

If we are going to achieve a real equality, the U.S. will have to adopt a modified form of Socialism.

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

The bed sheet brigade is bad enough, but the real threat to Americans and human rights today is the plain clothes Klux in the halls of government and certain black-robed Klux on court benches.

The Fair Tax Equation: T=I(I(.000001))

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.

Marriage is no substitute for political experience.

Unsolvable problems do not exist. Any crisis is a combination of specific tasks to be worked on. The government has the experience and reserves to overcome the economic downturn

I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.