Quotes About Government

The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.

What are politicians going to tell people when the Constitution is gone and we still have a drug problem?

the tax collectors found no more money to collect because there were no more people to pay the tax.

Authoritarian government isn't dead; it's just hibernating, poised to return in the Fourth Turning, rested and refreshed.

The ecclesiastics were, practically speaking, surrogates of the State.

With regard to the current crisis, what we have seen in government bailouts is not so much the solution to the deeper problems behind the economic crisis as it is a deferral of the consequences to some later time.

Imagine, representatives of our own government taking the side of a foreign country over the interest of American citizen. If it ever gets to where it's that way all the time, I tell you, this country won't be a fit place to live.

What's more, our government's responses were late, slow, indecisive and almost impossible to understand. Perhaps the worst outcome so far is the rise of "moral hazard." When risky behavior is insured against the consequences of its failure, that is considered moral hazard. If performed on a broad enough scale, it can be catastrophic for a nation.

I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

The American Union sanctions the deed. The Constitution shields the criminals. American

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

the U.S. government this very summer was sending an army against the Mormons at the big salty lake to make the Mormons live like the other wasicu, especially not to take more than one wife. Incomprehensible. "They

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

The government had to choose between shame and war. They have chosen shame, and now they will get war.

By 1938 much of the New Deal was dead. The programs that were not killed by the Supreme Court had been killed by Congress, which had seen the election of a significant number of conservatives.

Stalin believed all of his life, were a sign of weakness. If the people only pushed harder, the government would collapse and socialism would prevail.