Quotes About Government

I will be very sad and worried if the imperialist government was calling me a great democratic man.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.

The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.

Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.

As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.

We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.

Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.

Countries which enjoy the highest level of peace, happiness and prosperity are the ones where the law least interfered with private affairs.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.

To best serve the public happiness, government shouldn't do things it cannot do well - anymore than Wal-Mart should provide goods and services that people don't like.

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness... but only when you pay your taxes? That means your freedom is rented, leased, & not unalienable.

Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country [i.e. Iran] after the fall of the current system [of the Shah].

I believe health care is a basic right. If education - you're entitled to an education, why wouldn't you be entitled to adequate health care? Period.

You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

Why are liberals who want the government to regulate their health care upset that the government wants to regulate their internet?

Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens.

Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.

[Our children] have been taken away from us by the psychiatric mental-health system. They've been taken away by the educational system, by the government, and by many different forces.

[Health reform] will destroy the country [because] in the next year or so [America will have to] dramatically cut the military because we can't pay for it.

We really think health savings accounts were kind of invented in Indiana.