Quotes About Government

Besides, said they, a Monarchy is a divine form of Government, and agrees most with our Religion: For as there is but one God, whom we all unanimously worship and adore with one Faith; so we are resolved to have but one Emperor, to whom we all submit with one obedience.

Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.

The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.

There's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first.

Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.

Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.

There are significant differences between the American and European version of capitalism. The American traditiionally emphasizes the need for limited government, light regulations, low taxes and maximum labour-market flexibility. Its success has been shown above all in the ability to create new jobs, in which it is consistently more successful than Europe.

Socialists cry "Power to the people", and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean - power over people, power to the State.

And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain (...) It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease – they've run out of other people's money.

There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers' money.

en realidad iba directamente al núcleo de la cuestión de cuál debía ser el papel del Gobierno en una sociedad libre. Era tarea del Gobierno establecer un marco de estabilidad —ya fuera estabilidad constitucional, el cumplimiento de la ley, o la estabilidad económica

When the state does everything for you, it will soon take everything from you.

The problem with socialists, is that they always run out of other people's money,

Global warming provides a marvelous excuse for global socialism. " Margaret Thatcher

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money

No, It's not fair. But I was thinking more along the lines of the Pentagon and Washington itself. Sometimes I suspect that those who are running things might grow addicted to power. Secrecy's essential in wartime, but once in place, will it ever be removed?

subject that got people aroused . . . was Who Owns America? . . . They had a chart going . . . filling in connections between the big local contractors and the steel companies and the city and county governments and the unions . . . and the downtown merchants. . . . They found they still did not know who owned obvious centers of power like the banks. They did not know who owned the local paper. Or the radio stations.

In the coming years, Irataba emerged — from the perspective of the federal government — as the leader and spokesperson not only of the Mohaves, but of all the Colorado River tribes.

Yet, a recent government report on routine security screenings, written by a panel of experts at the National Academy of Sciences, had stated that "lie detectors lie" and "were likely to produce many false results.

Todas las artes han producido maravillas. El arte de gobernar sólo ha producido monstruos

Government is nothing but the regulated injustice that every rascal has in his heart.

Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.

Le dijo a Nariño que Colombia era un campo militar[6] y no una sociedad funcional. Mientras peleaba en solitario contra los abusos del gobierno, había visto cuan sobornables y corruptos podían ser los políticos y cuan incapaz había sido de controlarlos.