Quotes About Government

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

We live under a government of men—and morning newspapers.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

No one has the right to place one human being in a position of political power over another.

There's nothing to protect us. No state, no government, no law, no human rights. Animals have more rights than we do.

Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.

I used to think that people worried about one world government were more than a little paranoid. Today, not so much.

Deep down, I have come to the conclusion that the reason (children) are such a low priority to the great human institutions that seek to control this world, both secular and Christian, is that an invisible battle, a spiritual war, rages over each and every child. It is above us and beyond us and engages the full fury of the hosts of both heaven and hell. Children may be ignored by government, church, and mission – but not by Satan or God Almighty.

After 20 years on the bench I have concluded that federal drug laws are a disaster. It is time to get the government out of drug enforcement.

The No. 1 source in the State Department was Alger Hiss, who was then an assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State, Francis Sayre, the son-in-law of Woodrow Wilson. The No. 2 source in the same Department was Henry Julian Wadleigh, an expert in the Trade Agreements Division, to which he had managed to have himself transferred from the Agriculture Department. He had done so at the request of the Communist Party

They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.

One cannot equate "capitalism" and "democracy.

Cellatlar?n?n ipine ko?up idam edilece?ine, insan ya?am?n?n ve iyi ?eylerin korunmas? için bir yasa yarat.

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

policy is ultimately about people, what they want and what is best for them.

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them.

Meaninglessness in philosophical nihilism covers a wide spectrum, ranging from Metaphysical Nihilism, a negation of all existence, to Moral and Political Nihilism, a negation of a society's values and laws in a world that we acknowledge exists but has the potential to be better. In this last sense, it is easy to see how breaking away from the inherited truths of society, governments, and religion can make life more enjoyable in an old-fashioned, hedonistic sort of way.

Texans are no longer comfortable with submitting their political will to a people who, they perceive, wouldn't know liberty and good government if it jumped up and bit them in the ass. There is a precedent for this feeling in Texas. The Texas Declaration of Independence from Mexico specifically calls out the other Mexican States for their weakness in the face of Santa Anna's tyranny.