Quotes About Government

This is a typical liberal trick, by the way: Stack the deck so the whole thing fails leaving only one option, the government to go in to save the day.

I do not think a revival of business will be greatly postponed by [Samuel J.] Tilden's election. Business prosperity does not, inmy judgment, depend on government so much as men commonly think.

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

That's what the Ivy League is. And many of the people there are legacy. Their families went there; their families are in government. The kids go there.

Japan needs to cooperate with China economically. This is understood better by the business community than the government.

If this government is like the last one, then Iraq will break apart.

You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.

President Herbert Hoover returned his salary to the government. His idea caught on, and now we're all doing it.

It would be useless to bomb Washington. If you destroy one building, they already have two other buildings completely staffed with people doing exactly the same thing.

Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.

I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads.

Try telling a Cuban: 'You should pay higher rent, or pay for your own healthcare' ... There is no serious opposition to the current government.

What is government but theft by consent?

History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.

At the end of the day, perhaps the best argument against capital punishment may be that it is an issue beyond the limited capacity of government to get things right.

You see, here in America there's a reason why we celebrate the 4th of July and not April 15th because in America we celebrate our independence from the government, not our dependence on it.

We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.

A hated government does not long survive.

It was one of the late Conservative Government's gestures towards agriculture -- graceful as a kiss, and of about as much use.

Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.

The alternative to the market process is government control, and we know where that principle leads.

The government does not and cannot create jobs. Only entrepreneurs do.

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.