Quotes About Government

I dream of a world where Science shapes the structure of a society, rather than politics.

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

The creed of the Inland Revenue is simple: "If we can bring one little smile to one little face today, then somebody's slipped up somewhere."

Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.

The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally and effectually guarded in society.

The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.

In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.

The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.

The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this government can never be, as it never has been, a true republic.

For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.

The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.

Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny.

The fetus is the property of the entire society.

Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.

The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and happiness of the people.

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.