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Quotes About Government

All government is an ugly necessity.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
I feel like the government is more evil than most corporations.
~ Gavin McInnes
Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.
~ Roy Moore
I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.
~ Ginger Baker
I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.
~ Karl Popper
Give government the weapons to fight your enemy and it will use them against you.
~ Harry Browne
Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone.
~ Harry Browne
There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power.
~ Joseph Sobran
If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish.
~ Herbert Hoover
The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.
~ Herbert Hoover
Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.
~ George Washington
I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.
~ George Washington
If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy.
~ Robert Heilbroner
Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.
~ Alexander Berkman
Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.
~ Wanda Sykes
Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.
~ Thomas Woods
There is a government within the government who controll this and i do not controll it
~ William J. Clinton
Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.
~ Robert Higgs
Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it.
~ William J. Clinton
Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.
~ Ronald Reagan
It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.
~ Sam Brownback
China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.
~ Virginia Foxx
Americans are hard working, innovative, proud people who want bad government policies and high taxes to get out of the way so they can take care of their families and pursue their dreams.
~ Tim Walberg
America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.
~ Rick Perry