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Quotes About Government

There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves.
~ Milton Friedman
Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
~ Ralph Steadman
My message is simple - freedom works a lot better than the authoritarian style of government.
~ Ron Paul
Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?
~ Richard J. Daley
The question isn't whether we 'need' guns. It's wether the government should have a monopoly on force
~ Ann Coulter
The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.
~ Immanuel Kant
The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars. You can't take it seriously.
~ Eqbal Ahmad
Government conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything!
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
~ William Jennings Bryan
I don't think I should tell you what to do, nor should the government. As long as you enjoy your own personal liberties and don't infringe on the liberties of others, I don't care.
~ Armie Hammer
I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.
~ Anton Chekhov
Our government has become incompetent, unresponsive, corrupt. And that incompetence, ineptitude, lack of accountability is now dangerous.
~ Carly Fiorina
It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
~ James Dean
Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
~ Alan Greenspan
It's easier for opposition members to condemn the government at the drop of a hat if they don't understand.
~ Jason Kenney
Those policies - more taxes, more regulation, more debt, more spending, more government - will make American worse. It just will, in my view.
~ Jeff Sessions
By adopting programs to distribute substantial amounts of income, a nation guarantees that its government will become more powerful and invasive in other ways.
~ Robert Higgs
No bank should be allowed to become so big that it can blackmail governments.
~ Angela Merkel
In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
~ Carroll Quigley