Quotes About Government

You measure a government by how few people need help.

I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No.

What...can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way.

It would help the poor people who need jobs. Minimum wage is a mandate. We're against mandates so why should we have it? It would be very beneficial.

My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich.

Governments neither help us to get out of poverty and hunger, nor let us die. It is time that we must pick one.

A lot of people are waking up to human history, but so many people have been conditioned by the government controlled media to think that it's cool not to care.

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

[E]conomic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics

Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.

History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.

Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges

Never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can't make it worse.

History shows that anything conducive to our national stability is good.

Call me an alarmist, but we are witnessing the beginning of the most frightening period of government tyranny in our nation's history.

I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.