Quotes About Government

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

The Chinese government thinks China and the U.S. should develop a constructive relationship of cooperation.

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.

The polls are still showing the two parties running neck and neck. 'Labour might actually make it,' Henry says. 'The Tories aren't going to be able to command the confidence of the House.

The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

Any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to the laws.

It is a reproach to religion and government to suffer so much poverty and excess.

If men be good, government cannot be bad.

Tis admirable to consider, how Powerful the Kings are, yet they move by the Breath of their People.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins.

I invoke the genius of the Constitution.

As historian Gary Ferguson writes, "while livestock may be the kindling, the real fuel for the burn is that the federal government is behind the project. . . . Westerners couldn't buy a more perfect evil if they rode straight to hell with a saddlebag full of cash." Or, as one stockman said in 1989, "It's not so much the wolves we're afraid of, it's the wolf managers.

The Soviet propaganda apparatus continued to crank out shrill, contorted documents attempting to convince whoever was listening that Finland was the real aggressor, that the Kuusinen government was legitimate, and the Mannerheim/Tanner/Ryti regime was enslaving the workers, etc.

I had not then learned the philosophy which teaches that he who would attempt enterprises of great command, must begin his government by laying its foundations in his own breast, in control of his own passions & that he who would survey the world must first sound the depth & shallows of his own character.

I think there is no decent American living who could have worked in our Berlin Immigration section without acquiring a deep hatred for the government which drove these people like cattle from unfriendly consulate to unfriendly consulate, from blocked border to blocked border. Nothing was too petty for the mighty German government so long as it could do some harm to a harried Jew.

The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

A functioning police state needs no police.

There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power, water, transportation, protection, and welfare. Your right to live where you want, with companions of your choosing, under laws to which you agree, died in the eighteenth century with Captain Mission. Only a miracle or a disaster could restore it.

Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs,You would say it hath been all in all his study.

And liberty plucks justice by the nose.