Quotes About Government

The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.

...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds.

How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.

Initiative and referendum make government more responsive to its citizens, neutralize the power of the special interests and stimulate public involvement in state issues.

Power comes from the muzzle of a gun, those that have the guns have the power, those that have the power dictate what type of government their shall be.

Government has the power to help improve well-being

There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.

The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.

The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythicals beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal -- they have to live off each other--while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

There ought to be one day — just one — when there is open season on senators.

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

Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'