Quotes About Government

The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency.

There is only one government in the Philippines and that is how it will stay.

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

Whether Canada ends up as o­ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion...

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

I dream of a Digital India where technology ensures the Citizen-Government interface is incorruptible.

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.

The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.

A true patriot does not confuse government with country. A patriot's loyalty is to his country, and loyalty to country requires holding government accountable.

Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we're going through, not the cause of what we're going through.

Liberals want to manage the damage with government programs to take care of those who have fallen between the cracks. Populists want to fix the cracks so that people don't fall in the first place.

I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government.

Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies.

God has implanted a natural tendency to the monarchial form of government not only in the hearts of men but in practically all things.

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.

'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.