Quotes About Government

No taxation without representation.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

The best things in life are free, but sooner or later the government will find a way to tax them.

It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers.

If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?

Did you ever notice that when you put the words "The" and "IRS" together, it spells "THEIRS?"

All four pillars of democracy have broken down several years back , so no point of trusting any one of them.

Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.

Power (n) The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Yes, anarchy is order, government is civil war.

I still find it strange, incomprehensible, unnatural, inhuman, to devote oneself to the happiness of people whom one does not do not know; and I declare that I do not have the honor of being known to the men who govern me.

So, like today, the government machine kept, as it does, the same cogs, and I can only change the hand that turns the crank.

When you ask the government for freedom, the stupidity of your petition is instant proof to the latter that you have no grasp of your rights.

It is necessary, either that the government devours the country, or that the country absorbs the government.

We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

He wants a Bill of Rights for Britain drafted by a Committee of Lawyers. Have you ever tried drafting anything with a Committee of Lawyers?

Well, Margaret Thatcher is perhaps the politician I have the greatest admiration for. I am reading her memoirs at the moment.

To state a timetable now would simply paralyze the proper working of government, put at risk the changes we are making for Britain and damage the country.

he was also convinced that a strong executive authority should replace the incompetent competitive cockpit of Senatorial government.

WHAT NOW TOOK PLACE FLOWED from a mismatch of expectations between the dictator and the political nation

and called for Augustus to be appointed dictator.

Rome became a republic in 509 B.C., after driving out its king and abolishing the monarchy.

government by three men did not promise stability.