Quotes About Government

I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.

I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.

Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?

We admit of no government by divine right… the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should be not only tolerated, but encouraged.

The broad foundation upon which our Constitution rests being the people—a breath of theirs having made, as a breath can unmake, change, or modify it—it can be assigned to none of the great divisions of government but to that of democracy.

The virtue of its Citizens is the only Support of a Republican government

We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

A National Government cannot create good times. It cannot make the rain to fall, the sun to shine, or the crops to grow, but it can, by pursuing a meddlesome policy, attempting to change economic conditions, and frightening the investment of capital, prevent a prosperity and a revival of business which might otherwise have taken place.

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.

I am not in favor of having government do anything that private citizens can do as good or better

the story of liberty is a history of the limitation of a government power, not the increase of it.

Concentrated power is bad" "(name of chapter)

The Danish experience remains to this day a powerful, though nearly forgotten, lesson on the appropriate government reaction to the challenge of global competition: support and fund, but do not protect.

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwanted government intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision to bear or beget a child.

If there is a bedrock principle of the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.