Quotes About Government

A conservative is a Democrat who's been mugged. I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip isn't it?

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money.

They pick a president and then for four years they pick on him.

Most people don't realize, I really have no faith in politics. I'm not a politician. If I thought you could change human hearts by laws, I would, but I don't.

The statesman shears the sheep the politician skins them.

With each passing day, I become more and more convinced that the greatest threat to American freedom is the United States government.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

Space has always been confusing to politics.

Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness.

Nation needs soldiers, politics needs civilians.

An anarchist government somehow creates an impression in the hearts of citizens that no one cares.

An act of charity by the citizens questions the worthiness of the government.

Public strengthens politics but politics weakens public.

When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.

Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, . . . its enabling force. Transparency is the only real antidote.

[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous.

The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence.

It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.

The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

Federalism isn't about states' rights. It's about dividing power to better protect individual liberty.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, 'Limit yourself'; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.