Quotes About Government

If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

As a society we can't live without moral considerations. We do have to protect the public good. And markets are not designed to do that, so we need a political process.

There is, in a competitive society, nobody who can exercise even a fraction of the power which a socialist planning board would possess.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature of our society.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

The interventionist policy (big government) provides thousands and thousands of people with safe, placid, and not too strenuous jobs at the expense of the rest of society.

Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

In America, we are living in a society which is moving more and more toward an oligarchic form of society where government is dominated heavily by big-money interests.

The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side