Quotes About Government

If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.

A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic, reformism is basically optimistic.

Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital.

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

Governments, whether they're dictatorships or democracies, reflect the people. When the people get fed up, they throw them out.

No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government... You can't believe a word the American media says. If they say anything correct, it's just an accident.

If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.

An individual citizen cannot protect himself from the powers of large corporations or external governments. It is the responsibility of the government to protect its citizens.

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.

Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.

Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.

Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he is advocating more government action or less.

In recent years... forces have developed in our government over which we have no control, and these forces have an authoritarian approach to justice - meaning, they tell you what justice is.

The federal government is our servant, not our master.

I call the present system 'Post-Constitutional America.' As I sometimes put it, the U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.