Quotes About Government

Public influence is the real government of the world.

If Wall Street paid a tax on every "game" they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

... the state is not absolute, and loyalty to the state cannot be absolute.

Freedom for the government is enslavement for the people. When the government is free the people are enslaved. When the government is contained then the people are free.

In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government.

Within the next hundred years...nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority... National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all.

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

Well, first let's say that the fundamental responsibility of any government is national security - in the preamble to the Constitution, provide for the common defense and insure domestic tranquility.

There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where vital interests are concerned.

If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war.

I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.

Then I received support from the Government to compete for my country, and to represent Cuba in competition.

Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not.

If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.

I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.

As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.

Liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.

Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system