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Quotes About Government

It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
~ David Mamet
The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.
~ David Mamet
Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.
~ James K. Polk
As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.
~ Stephen Harper
If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.
~ Roy Moore
Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.
~ Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.
~ Tony Campolo
I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.
~ Pierre Trudeau
The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
~ Ludwig von Mises
When something goes wrong, the natural tendency is to say, "By God, we need to pass a law and do something."
~ Milton Friedman
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.
~ Elie Wiesel
America derives its laws from its Constitution. It derives its values from the Bible. We don't get inalienable rights from the Constitution; we get them from God.
~ Dennis Prager
God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government?
~ Dennis Prager
You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.
~ Edmund Muskie
I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?
~ Tim Robbins
If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.
~ Mark Twain
One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man.
~ Nelson A. Miles
Our rights come from nature and God, not government.
~ Paul Ryan
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
~ Pope Francis
I am a monarch of God's creation, and you reptiles of the earth dare not oppose me. I render an account of my government to none save God and Jesus Christ.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Fifty-five years ago, when my dad was a penniless teenager, thank God some well-meaning bureaucrat didn't put his arm around him and say let me take care of you.
~ Ted Cruz
The Pledge clearly acknowledges the fact that our freedoms in this country come from God, not government.
~ Jay Sekulow
Thank God for the founding fathers, who set up three separate branches of government. And the media acting as the Fourth Estate.
~ Andre Carson