Quotes About Government

all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.

When you start peeling the onion and uncovering layers and layers of inequity that have been subsidized by government, it makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.

The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class interests upon which the [US] policy is fixed.

There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.

Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death.

People are frustrated. They're fed up. They don't think the government is working for them.

A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities.

I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.

Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't.

Young people in particular need real options to find a decent job and to lift their lives. I'm not sure the new Islamist governments will be the best to promote prosperity and growth.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.

Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.

. . . behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.

Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.

What the American worker needs is more of what WalMart offers and less of what the government offers.

The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.

Global climate change is real. The legislative branch of our government is our last line of defense against pollution which is why I am so grateful to have the NRDC making our voice heard.