Quotes About Government

When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.

I'm gonna put all my money into taxes. They're sure to go up.

Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better able to meet emergencies.

Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.

I trust my government. I actually have a trust for my government with my data, and I trust them to protect me. They've protected me - they've made the best efforts to protect me my whole life.

No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

Government sponsors untold waste, criminality and inequality in every sphere of life it touches, giving little or nothing in return.

The government increasingly resembles somebody who is trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse.

I've thought about living the koala's life, but you may need to petition the government quarantine rules to make it happen. Quarantine would make me extra grumpy.

It's hard enougth to find intelligent life right here in Washington!

We should scrub all of our federal regulations to find responsible ways to make life easier to small businesses, i want to be a small business president.

Let's get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let's take a stand for personal freedom.

Life within the Kremlin was shrouded in impenetrable secrecy.

He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.

Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life.

My great objective as a parliamentarian was to dramatise the deficiencies and devise practical government programs to deal with them. It was a cause that went to the heart of our way of life.

Between the marketplace and government there exists all of that which makes life worth living-family life, spiritual life, the art and culture that make our spirits soar.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

Income taxes are responsible for the transformation of the Federal government from one of limited powers into a vast leviathan whose tentacles reach into almost every aspect of American life.

Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.