Quotes About Government

It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.

The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

To the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things they don't like: welcome to the f*cking club. Reimburse me for the Iraq war and oil subsidies, and diaphragms are on me!

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business.

We must take away the government's credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts

Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.

A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.

But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Aggression is simply another name for government.

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

Present governments are encouraging separatism in Australia by providing opportunities, land, moneys and facilities available only to Aboriginals.

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.