Quotes About Government

Stephen Harper, who's the prime minister of Canada, he is saying that this - we have to give him a majority government, otherwise there will be a Separatist coalition. And he says it every minute.

In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.

America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.

Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you.

In 1923 there were no government benefits for immigrants except one: Freedom!

The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He's put the law in the government's hands.

The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers.

It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government.

The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.

Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.

The government is not doing anything to help the country to heal. The government is just making cosmetic changes.

Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.

No society has ever succeeded without a decent government.

If government is inevitable, the challenge is to come up with the most effective one possible.

Environmental regulation looked like it was going to be under serious attack, and they were giving all of those speeches about getting government off people's backs.

I am much more optimistic about consumer-driven change than I am governmental change. Anything can happen in government, but I do think we consumers can drive true change.

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.

You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration.

Government today, far from protecting property, is its main threat.

Since the beginning of recorded history, the business of government has been wealth confiscation.

It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot

The Federal Reserve and Congress have systematically taught the American people to trust the government and that caution in spending is harmful to the economy.

We must educate ourselves and others about our precious civil liberties to ensure that we never accept demands that we give up our Constitution so that the government can pretend to protect us.

No matter how many pro-freedom politicians we elect to office, the only way to guarantee constitutional government is through an educated and activist public devoted to the ideals of liberty.