Quotes About Government

Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.

Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.

I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around.

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.

The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.

When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.

A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.

A theocracy is a government ruled directly by God, and for us it means "Theocracy within". In other words, trying to live by God's principles instead of just living selfishly.

Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)

These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.

Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Here's your enemy for this week, the government says. And some gullible Americans click their heels and salute - often without knowing who or even where the enemy of the week is.

... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

The American Constitution was designed to make it hard to have too much government.

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

The answer to one is the answer to all. Government by 'the people' is expedient or it is not. If it is expedient, then obviously all the people must be included.