Quotes About Government

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Besides if people really want to support the troops they would vote democrat.

We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put forward a strategy for achieving stability in Iraq, ending the conflict, and handing over sovereignty to the people of Iraq and the new Iraqi government.

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

Get government out of our way, and let freedom and the spirit of the American people shine through.

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.

Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleepi

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

(Liberty) is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of society within the limits prescribed by the law, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyme

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure

Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation

Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest

We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos

Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.