Quotes About Government

Americans have seen fit to elect twelve generals to the U.S. presidency, but even before there was a United States of America generals ruled the earth. Take

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

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

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

Freedom exists only where people take care of the government.

You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders

It is ... particularly true of constitutional government that its atmosphere is opinion .... It does not remain fixed in any unchanging form, but grows with the growth and is altered with the change of the nation's needs and purposes.

We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it; what we have to determine now is whether we are big enough, whether we are men enough, whether we are free enough, to take possession again of the government which is our own.

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.

The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5'7, it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.

What kind of government is this? It's getting more like California all the time.

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.

We assert that in those areas where the government is either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of our people, that our peopie are within our rights to protect themselves by whatever means necessary.

Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress. Instead, you have to take that government to the World Court and accuse it of genocide and all of the other crimes that it is guilty of today.

Imagine that -- a country that's supposed to be a democracy, supposed to be for freedom and all of that kind of stuff when they want to draft you and put you in the army and send you to Saigon to fight for them -- and then you've got to turn around and all night long discuss how you're going to just get a right to register and vote without being murdered. Why, that's the most hypocritical government since the world began!

Anytime you live in a society supposedly based upon law and it doesn't enforce its own laws because the color of a man's skin happens to be wrong, then I say those people are justified to resort to any means necessary to bring about justice when the government can't give them justice.

If the government thinks I am wrong for saying this, then let the government start doing its job.

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.