Quotes About Government

The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted.

Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

Governments without separation of powers commit the worst crimes.

Get out of our schools God, get out of our textbooks God, get out of our government God, go away God, go away God, go away God, Katrina hits, God, where are you?

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

For government to give, it must first take away.

People get the government their behavior deserves. People deserve better than that.

There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security.

The tax that is taken from the free non-Muslim subjects of a Muslim government whereby they ratify the compact that assures them protection, as though it were compensation for not being slain.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.

Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes their spirit.

No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.

Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.

When the state or federal government controls the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds.