Quotes About Government

I don't think that governments should permit speculation in raw materials, because they're what the economy basically needs.

The powers of the federal government ... result from the compact to which the states are parties, [and are] limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact.

America is more than just a place...it's an idea. It's the only country founded on an idea. Our rights come from nature and God, not government. We promise equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.

Big government helps the people who have made it. It doesn't help the people who are trying to make it; it crushes the people who are trying to make it.

Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.

I proclaim publicly that I favor ending government involvement in education.

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

Forget the state concerns -- we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape.

Government is about stealing and nothing else. That's all it's ever been about. That's all it'll ever be about.

My first warning is to my government officers to not presume citizens as thieves.

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.

I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.

Anyplace market forces have been artificially removed by the government there is a total absence of incentives, competition, effective oversight, cost controls and so on.

We have to demand that governments live up to their promises and make education a reality for every child.

If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church

A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy

If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.

Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.

Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.

The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school.

Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.

For me the definition of a patriot is someone who is willing to constantly question the government; that's what separates us from other countries.