Quotes About Government

Loyalty to the nation ALL THE TIME. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

I BELIEVE THIS GOVERNMENT CANNOT ENDURE, PERMANENTLY HALF SLAVE AND HALF FREE. I DO NOT EXPECT THE UNION TO BE DISSOLVED—I DO NOT EXPECT THE HOUSE TO FALL—BUT I DO EXPECT IT WILL CEASE TO BE DIVIDED. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Speech at the Republican convention, Springfield, Illinois, June 16, 1858

Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.

Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.

The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.

Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

You can't tax business. Business doesn't pay taxes. It collects taxes.

Government is like a baby: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Remember that every government service, every offer of government - financed security, is paid for in the loss of personal freedom... In the days to come, whenever a voice is raised telling you to let the government do it, analyze very carefully to see whether the suggested service is worth the personal freedom which you must forgo in return for such service.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

Please tell me you're Republicans.

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time.

If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer.

We are a nation that has a government--not the other way around.

People don't start wars, governments do.

governments don't produce economic growth people do.

If politics were a musical, it would be Promises, Promises.