Quotes About Government

A corrupt people would not long remain free. "He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue," he concluded.

His sympathies lay with the man in the street, to whom he believed government answered. A friend distilled his politics to two maxims: "Rulers should have little, the people much." And privilege should make way for genius and industry.

Men who preferred a church without a bishop came naturally to the idea of a state without a king.

Los políticos son demasiado tontos para que nosotros podamos prever sus acciones aplicando la razón

Durante medio siglo, la monarquía [de Alfonso XIII] había tenido un éxito razonable en su papel de moderador y regulando el acceso al Gobierno, y se había convertido en un símbolo de unidad y continuidad, cualidades que, al desaparecer, no tardarían en conducir al país al desastre.

There were no more nations, but there were neighbourhoods, regions, zones, and a hierarchy of councils, parliaments and congresses: talking shops, all the way up to some kind of world-government council. This system was what they called the Common Heritage. He wondered vaguely if this had evolved from a form of emergency organisation in the refugee days – the 'Chaos' – maybe built on some elements of the old UN.

I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.

It's the way our founding fathers would have wanted it, if they had founded corporations instead of just a country.

My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again.

It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.

The Crusaders lead to the Knights Templar; the Knights Templar lead to the Masons; and the Masons lead to the Shriners, a secret society that controls world government, toys with our banking system, and single-handedly keeps the fez industry afloat.

Physics. Some say this science is fundamental; I say it's a bunch of unnecessary regulations. Physics is the ultimate Big Government interference—universal laws meant to constrain us at every turn.

This bureaucracy had been created after 9/11 because of political

Abortions, gay marriage, legalized pot, all of that should be decided by the states. Whatever happened to the governmental powers reserved to the states? Let's declare ourselves independent, give the people of Oklahoma the right to decide which laws they want to live under, and tell Barry Soetoro where to go and what to do to himself when he gets there.

but until we fix the government policies that breed poverty, we have condemned the poor, black, white, and brown to a life of economic slavery

And there were iron laws of tradition and law on four sides. He was in a moving box. As he perceived this fact it occurred to him that he had never wished to come to the war. He had not enlisted of his free will. He had been dragged by the merciless government. And now they were taking him out to be slaughtered.

History of the United States in the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson

Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.

If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.

I think this is an important subject for research, but one has to be careful not to be labelled a crank. If one made a research grant application to work on time travel it would be dismissed immediately. No government agency could afford to be seen to be spending public money on anything as way out as time travel. Instead one has to use technical terms like closed time-like curves, which are code for time travel.

Trump now exerting new forces in relation to immigration and the development of education

If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

No one likes to see a government folder with his name on it.

But the people didn't elect buffoons to Washington. Well—hardly ever.