Quotes About Government

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

Men in Government monopolize the necessary use of force; they are not using their energies productively; they are not milking cows. To get butter, they must use guns; they have nothing else to use.

Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

Collectively the media; the meat, oil, and dairy industries; most prominent chefs and cookbook authors; and our own government are not presenting accurate advice about the healthiest way to eat.

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

Peaceful secession and nullification are the only means of returning to a system of government that respects rather than destroys individual liberty.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to Delhi to get a license to import computers.

The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the prospective wants of the Government.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.

Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal.

The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich.

A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

The Chinese government does not engage in theft of commercial secrets in any form, nor does it encourage or support Chinese companies to engage in such practices in any way.

Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.

If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room.

There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame.

It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.

The worst elements in Mexico are being pushed into the United States by the Mexican government. The Border Patrol knows this. Likewise, tremendous infectious disease is pouring across the border.

It is not the job of the Department of Education to maximize profits for the government at the cost of squeezing students who are struggling to get an education.