Quotes About Government

It is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal decisions for someone else.

We are under [government's] control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it.

I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice.

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality.

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened.

Bankruptcies of governments have, on the whole, done less harm to mankind than their ability to raise loans.

If you act in the name of conscience you are stronger than any government in the world.

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

When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.

The more the government intervenes to delay the market's adjustment, the longer and more grueling the depression will be, and the more difficult will be the road to complete recovery.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

All government operation is wasteful, inefficient, and serves the bureaucrat rather than the consumer.

Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.

No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.

...having a member who serves in the Government and who also belongs to the structures of the party does not retard this particular objective the separation of party and state. It does not.

The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway government.

Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.

The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.