Quotes About Government

The moral law of God is the only law of individuals and of nations, and nothing can be rightful government but such as is established and administered with a view to its support.

The greatest danger facing our nation isn't terrorism, global warming or the energy crisis. It is out-of-control, unbridled government spending.

Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.

Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

People are always saying,'They'll take care of it. The government'll--Don't worry, they'll--' 'They' who? It starts with us. It's us. Or else it'll never be done...

The government does not add value to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and providing cash to another.

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.

Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

The plague of government is senile delinquency.

Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.