Quotes About Government

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.

A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.

Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.

The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other nation.

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.

There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy Hoffa did almost daily and with arrogance.

The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.

It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, "See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk".

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

[In Eritrea] in key positions - president, government, police - everybody's the same [color]. It's a country run by its people. No racial class, everybody feels a part of it.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.