Quotes About Government

Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.

We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

Democrats don't resent the rich on behalf of the poor. They resent the rich on behalf of the government.

We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.

Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect? Freedom is a rare and delicate plant.

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.

We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.

I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.

Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.