Quotes About Government

Truth: the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death.

as Lord Reading, a viceroy of India.

As environmental protection has emerged as a significant item on the policy agendas of governments, the state must increasingly balance its dual role as a facilitator of capital accumulation and economic growth and its role as environmental regulator and champion. On

An elephant is a mouse, built to government specifications.

Ideological ambiguity has been a hallmark of Italian politics since the foundation of the republic in 1946.

The South's] obsession was to maintain a government, an economy, an arrangement of the sexes, a relationship of the races, and a social system that had never existed...except in the fertile imagination of those who would not confront either the reality that existed or the change that would bring them closer to reality.

By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments. The major crimes throughout history, the ones executed on the largest scale, have been committed not by individuals or bands of individuals but by governments, as a deliberate policy of those governments, that is, by the official representatives of governments, acting in their official capacity.

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.

you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

We have always cared more about property rights than human rights in this country. You should know that.

Weve always cared more about property rights than human rights in this country. You should know that.

Chinese communism lies the world's longest tradition of successful autocracy.

The Americans will see you. God knows why, but they will.' 'You have a way of making it sound as though they're above the law,' said Troy. 'What you don't grasp, Troy, is that they run things now.

from investigating the German activity there.  The Germans had to be there for some classified reason.  What was that?  It stands to reason and starts to make sense that this trip by our government was of serious national security importance, and was absolutely handled that way.  With all the massive resources used, and

Sending a man to the Moon and finding Osama Bin Laden cost the US government about the same amount of time and money: ten years and $100 billion.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.