Quotes About Government

The Fourteenth Amendment does not enact Mr. Herbert Spencer's Social Statics.

For my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part…. If the existing code does not permit district attorneys to have a hand in such dirty business [wiretapping], it does not permit the judge to allow such iniquities to succeed.

Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization.

The power to tax is not the power to destroy while this Court sits.

If an election is to be determined by a majority of a single vote, and that can be procured by a party through artifice or corruption, the government may be the choice of a party, for its own ends, not of the nation, for the national good. If that solitary suffrage can be obtained by foreign nations, by flattery or by menaces .

The truth of the matter was, of course, that the new taxes would have fallen far more heavily on the rich than on the poor, but it is always easy to sway public opinion by announcing virtuously that the government is spending too much and that taxes must be cut.

There were no peasants doffing their hats here; no one was exempt from paying taxes; all men, in fact, were born equal.

In Italia si parla sempre di Diritti e mai di Doveri. In Italia si finge di ignorare o si ignora che ogni Diritto comporta un Dovere, che chi non compie il proprio dovere non merita alcun diritto».

The Provisional Government had lost effective military control of the capital a full two days before the armed uprising began. This was the essential fact of the whole insurrection: without it one cannot explain the ease of the Bolshevik victory.

The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.

Free society's organize around the "invisible hand" while Force society's organize around the State's "visible fist.

A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.

Access to unlimited funds by a government, not surprisingly, leads to an unlimited government.

If the power to tax is the power to destroy then the power to profit is the power to create.

The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.

An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

In 1916, President Wilson drafted the speech in which he declared, "It shall not lie with the American people to dictate to another what their government shall be." His Secretary of State Robert Lansing wrote in the margin: "Haiti, S Domingo, Nicaragua, Panama."6 That

The insistence of the Danish government to refrain from apologizing and its refusal to punish the criminals and take action to prevent this crime from being repeated... shows that the notions of freedom of speech have no roots, especially when it comes to Muslims.

I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in and the West in general into an unbearable hell and a choking life.

A lot of nonvoters have a very hazy understanding of what the government does and what levels of government carry out which functions. But almost everyone cares about what happens in their own communities.