Quotes About Government

if you want to achieve immortality, see what you can do about getting yourself turned into a Pentagon program.

Under both the welfare state and communism, the responsibility for the welfare, security, and prosperity of the people is presumed to rest with the central government.

Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.

Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.

A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

One of the things I think is really problematic about something like [government] spyware is that it isn't transparent - because of that anonymity and that secrecy, there aren't laws to regulate it.

I'm not a big government guy. I believe in private industries taking care of people. I think they do a better job.

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.

If our government servants had to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as they have forced all of American business to do, they would be in jail.

I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.

There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of sXXXch, or the right of the people peaceably to XXXemble, and to peXXXion the government for a redress of grievances.

Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights.

The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.

Most countries choose to have government run the economy.

It actually turns out to be much harder to really understand government across state local and federal.

[Peter] Drucker says that modern government can do only two things well: wage war and inflate the currency. Its the aim of my administration to prove Mr Drucker wrong.