Quotes About Government

Government planning always involves compulsion.

We're against the state, not government. The state just happens to monopolize the government.

On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.

The drive . . . is to create a one world government ... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope . . . .

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government, and I'm here to help."

The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back.

Improved turnout will give parliament and government the appearance of being more legitimate.

Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.

The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.

Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency.

People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.

Even if I wanted to run for Ethiopia, I wouldn't expect the government or federation to choose me to do that.

Either you believe in markets, or you believe in government.

... Washington is, for one thing, the news capital of the world. And for another, it is a company town. Most of the interesting people in Washington either work for the government or write about it.

A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.

As the excited passions of hostile people are of themselves a powerful enemy, both the general and his government should use their best efforts to allay them.

From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.