Quotes About Government

I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality

The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it rests with the Supreme Court to decide what they have really thought.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.

Sometimes I wish we could hear of a country that's out of kings.

It is dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong

Enforcement isn't about big government or small government. It's about whether government works and who it works for.

The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become....The more rules and regulations, The more thieves and robbers.

While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed and are right.

Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Government is not reason it is not eloquence - it is force.

The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.

That government is best which governs the least because its people discipline themselves.

When we got into office the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt, ' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives.

Corporations and their government minions are capable of anything...just look at the frauds the recent wars became known as. Hundreds of thousands killed in the name of corporate "liberation".

Computers are one of the products in the USA that appear to be unregulated by the government which leaves consumers unprotected from flawed devices.