Quotes About Government

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size

Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?

Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets

The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself

Man is not free unless government is limited.

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

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Even Albert Einstein reportedly needed help on his 1040 form.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it.

Most tax revisions didn't improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers.

My belief has always been ... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights.

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!

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15.

Shouldn't someone tag Mr Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother.

Someone must stand up to those who say, Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want.

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