Quotes About Government

When an upstart dictator in the United States succeeds in making this a one-party form of government, I shall have the courage to stand up and advocate the use of bullets.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost.

No matter what happens in the future, whether it is a Labor government or a Coalition government, whoever is in government is going to have to fix the budget.

The American people ought to know that it is not them, but their government's policies, that are so hated.

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.

Go back to bed America, your government is in control again. Go back to bed America... you are free to do as we tell you... you are free to do as we tell you.

I think it is in the interest of the people of [Serbia] that no one, not even the government, can get away with the crime, whoever the victim.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

Government does not create jobs. Government does not create jobs.

I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

As restrictions and prohibitions are multiplied the people grow poorer and poorer. When they are subjected to overmuch government, the land is thrown into confusion.

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.

You can have economic freedom without political freedom, but you cannot have political freedom without economic freedom.

Government does not grow by seizing our freedoms, but by assuming our responsibilities.

The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.

There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and industry to leave it in the ground.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

[T]he kingdom of God... is to be a political institution that shall hold sway over all the earth; to which all other governments will be subordinate and by which they will be dominated.