Quotes About Government

The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.

Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.

I sincerely believe that I have served a criminal. I led my soldiers in good conscience... but for a criminal government.

Do you know what I think white people wholly own? I think freedom of speech is a white thing. This is something that white people do. I think governments, this is a white thing.

The federal government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle, that it can exercise only the powers granted to it . . . is now universally admitted.

A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.

There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in the domain of Iran's conservative judicial system.

Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.

It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than 10 military divisions.

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

Sorry, but we live in a democracy and the Government has to be responsive to Parliament.

The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per cent.

The government means industry, if you know what I mean.

Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require.

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?

Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.

You can have a strong government and a weak people, or strong people and weak government, but you cannot have both.

Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.

American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.