Quotes About Government

Es un poco la posdemocracia, si quieres, pero hoy todo el mundo hace eso, es lo único que funciona, la democracia como sistema está muerta, es demasiado lenta, demasiado pesada.

Every theocracy is a denial of democracy. Even better: the smallest hint of theocracy neutralizes the very essence of democracy.

They're using these sort of coded appeals to say to people two things: One, the biggest threat in your life is not concentrated wealth, it's minorities; and two, government coddles minorities, and all these government assistance programs, it's all about giveaways to minorities—oppose them—government is taking your taxes and giving it to undeserving minorities.

The "Great Society" has not worked and it's put us into the modern welfare state. If you look at China, they don't have food stamps. If you look at China, they're in a very different situation. They save for their own retirement security... They don't have the modern welfare state and China's growing. And so what I would do is look at the programs that LBJ gave us with the Great Society and they'd be gone.

During the last 100 days we have seen an orgy. It would make any local smorgasbord embarrassed if you looked at this spending orgy we've seen in Washington. So it's no surprise our national debt is now soaring over $11 trillion dollars. [1] The government spent its wad by April 26. Every dime government spends after April 26 throughout the rest of this fiscal year is borrowed money.

Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16 500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.

I think you may see again a rise at the federal government level for a - a call for the federal constitutional amendment, because people want to make sure that this definition of marriage remains secure, because after all, the family is the fundamental unit of government.

When bureaucrats talk about increasing our 'access' to x, y or z, what they're really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government health care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government plan to 'increase' Internet 'access.'

For the past two years, President Obama has promised our children the moon, stars, rainbows, unicorns and universal health care for all. But the White House Santa's cradle-to-grave entitlement mandates are a spectacularly predictable bust.

Liberty, not government, is the world's most powerful

The Americans are right: there should not be taxation unless the people consent to it. And it should be fair, which means the nobility and clergy should be taxed as well.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is … the most indispensable of duties. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

The plague of government is senile delinquency.

Órdenes; para eso se inventó el teléfono, para capturar a los enemigos del gobierno!

El crimen es precioso porque garantiza al gobierno la adhesión del ciudadano. ¿La patria? ¡Sálvese, general, yo sé lo que le digo; qué patria ni qué india envuelta! ¿Las leyes? ¡Buenas son tortas! ¡Sálvese, general, porque le espera la muerte!».

The way I see it, all governments are just a different flavour of bastard.

Once a person gets outside, he gets all these ideas of being free, and that plays merry hell for a government." He nodded firmly. "Keep a man inside behind steel walls and thick windows, tell him that what you do, it's for his own protection. Make him think he relies on you, let him think the prison is his home, and he'll thank you for it.

People don't trust the federal government as it relates to health care.

We the people are the United States of America. Not the military, not Washington, DC, not the president, not the Congress. They all work for the people and by the grace of God. It is only by their will that the federal government exist at all, not the other way around.

the problem with socialism is, was, and always will be that sooner or later the government runs out of other people's money to spend. If it continued to take from those who work and produce, before long they stop producing, and then there is no one left to get it from.

Americans different in some maybe thoughts or emphasis still have the same ideas. They want a government that lets them be free, that leaves them alone, that doesn't interrupt and interfere with every aspect of their life, that lets them go to work and keep more of what they've worked hard to have.

Every amendment in the Bill of Rights expressly tells the government what IT is forbidden to do, not one of them explains what the people can't do

There are a few monopolies that are allowed to exist with the government's blessing. One is the United States Postal Service, better known as the post pffice.

in Federalist Paper Number 45 shows how Madison and the founders saw the limited role of federal government: The operations of the federal government will be at their most extensive and important in times of war and danger, while those of the state governments will be the most important in times of peace and security. Since periods of war and danger will probably occur much less than times of peace and security, the state governments will enjoy yet another advantage over the federal government.