Quotes About Government

The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do what it wants.

Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.

I feel that if God had really wanted us to have enough oil, he would never have given us a Department of Energy.

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else.

The U.S. government alleges that for the past 45 years, the companies that manufacture and sell tobacco have waged an intentional and coordinated campaign of deceit.

During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: "Look out! They're about to smack you around again!

There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.

Respecting the sovereignty means preventing coups, unconstitutional actions and illegitimate overthrowing of the legitimate government. All these things should be totally prevented.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind.

We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values.

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

Government is not show business.

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government

Trusting the government with money creation is like trusting a drunk with a whiskey factory.

Liberty may make mistakes but tyranny is the death of a nation.

Based on every statement I've heard out of any Republican in the last two years, the Israelis are controlling our government.

Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.