Quotes About Government

The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it.

?On top of the government-hierarchy you need an unpolluted group of scientists to give a nation the best direction.

A government that kills its own citizens is like a parent that kills their own kids aka filicide or like a mother that kills her unborn by abortion .

A free state is a corporate state.

No one will seek the highest [things] if he believes that there is no truth, that nothing is his fault, and that government will guarantee his wants.

It's unbelievable—or we're supposed to think it is—that a president was murdered by our own government agencies because he was seeking a more stable peace than relying on nuclear weapons. It's unspeakable. For the sake of a nation that must always be preparing for war, that story must not be told. If it were, we might learn that peace is possible without making war.

What is unrecognized about JFK's presidency, which then makes his assas­sination a false mystery, is that he was locked in a struggle with his national security state. That state had higher values than obedience to the orders of a president who wanted peace.

the common good is defined by who wins at the polls, and the policies they make. Like it or lump it.

Government requires motion, perhaps even more than wisdom. And there is a constant temptation to depend on those who know how to keep it moving, rather than demanding that it stay on any particular course.

Entrenched aristocracies, however we may want to define them, do not want change; their desire instead is to manage dissent in a way that does not disrupt their control. But over time, under the right system of government, a free, thinking people has the energy and ultimately the power to effect change.

Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind.

Liberty and happiness have a powerful enemy on each hand; on the one hand tyranny, on the other licentiousness [anarchy]. To guard against the latter, it is necessary to give the proper powers to government; and to guard against the former, it is necessary that those powers should be properly distributed.

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.

I respect the office of the president.

We have over 500 000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of money of course in health care, in education, and then, on top of it all, in incarceration. And the federal government doesn't reimburse us on any of these things.

So you know, I think that the federal government, the Democrats, and President Obama are selling a lot of hope and change, but no delivery of any of those promises.

I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's not wishful thinking.

And under the existing circumstances, I understand there are situations where people indeed need care and need services, but I believe in America that the majority of those people are getting those services under situations and circumstances that are afforded to them by their health care providers and their state government.

While internees had "first accepted with philosophical understanding the decision of their government," Ickes told Roosevelt that these imprisoned Americans, charged with no crimes, were now bitter. "I do not think that we can disregard the unnecessary creation of a hostile group right in our own territory." As

No matter how exasperated the circumstances become, officers must bear in mind they are representatives of our government and must conduct themselves in a worthy manner. To become impatient, sarcastic, hostile or personal in remarks is an admission of weakness and defeat and, needless to say, should never occur." In

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

plots for the destruction of the United States government. "A desperate turn towards evil had come," she wrote, after hearing her brother damn the United States and