Quotes About Government

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.

The greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.

Government [is] an illusion the governed should not encourage.

I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics-though the means should at least be good enough to lead to the ends desired.

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

All governments are lying cocksuckers.

The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves properly.

The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control.

Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'

When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that's tyranny.

The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.

This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.

It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.

Governmental subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation.

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.

In adopting the republican form of government, I not only took it as a man does his wife, for better, for worse, but, what few men do with their wives, I took it knowing all its bad qualities.

We're not like the American administration, we're not social media administration or government. We are a government that deals with reality. When we have evidence, we'll announce it.