Quotes About Government

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.

We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.

We have not yet built a communist society.It is not so easy to build such a society.

Setting aside labels, I am somebody who believes that government in a democratic society should be representing the needs of the vast majority of the people who are middle-class and working families.

A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.

Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved

The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.

I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.

In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'

Ironically, in the full-fledged transfer society, where governments busy themselves redistributing income by means of hundreds of distinct programs, hardly anyone is better off as a result.

Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.

Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society.

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things.

The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class.

It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society.

The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries.

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the specialists in the government to take care of.

Donald Trump says he'll cut taxes and that will make the more productive members of our society more productive still and that he'd create more jobs.

The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .

Only majorities can expand political rights in America's constitutional society.