Quotes About Government

We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.

Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.

I think most of [people] are not very well educated themselves to understand the Winston Churchill line - democracy is the worst of all governments until you consider all the other ones.

Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for?

I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.

The [Elian] raid... was almost worth it, if only to watch Jesse Jackson...defending an armed pre-dawn raid by the US government on a minority household.

The atmosphere of fear and security manipulated by the government has converted American citizens into terrorist suspects who are all subject to arbitrary and unreviewable detention and surveillance.

We must engage in a whole-of-government approach to combat Russian active measures.

From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

Philanthropic leaders genially speak of complementing government, not competing with it as if monopoly were good and competition destructive-thus unwittingly conspiring against the public interest.

Everything goes wrong for a government which is going wrong

Government is, and always has been, the greatest criminal threat to the peaceful members of society.

Governments everywhere, including here in the Unites States, have created ever-expanding bureaucracies that regulate nearly every aspect of our lives.

They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far.

Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets.

It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.

The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren't worth a dime.

Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

Each and every one of us has a vital part to play in building the kind of world in which government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.

In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

Officially in America we now have a totally arbitrary and limitless government. That is, we have a 'total government.' In short, we've got totalitarian government.

You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals.