Quotes About Government

The public is always relieved to find that once the chief officers of state are elected they do not sincerely want change.

Whether he knows it or not, the middle-income American is taxed as though he were living in a socialist society.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

I think there should be a constitutional amendment making it impossible for anyone to be president who believes in an afterlife.

To Jefferson the Constitution was simply a convenience when it allowed him to do what he wanted to do, and a monarchical document when it stayed his hand. He regarded domestic government as the business of the states and foreign affairs as the business of the Executive, and he was naïve enough in those days to think that the two businesses could be kept separate.

Since a president can do wrong and since he can be named in debate, he is not an anointed king and so like any man is answerable to the law." John Marshall then summoned President Jefferson to Richmond

No one ever likes any president's appointments, including those appointed.

Ever since 1941, when Roosevelt got us out of the Depression by pumping federal money into rearming, war or the threat of war has been the principal engine to our society. Now the war is over. Or is it? Can we afford to give up our—well, cozy unremitting war?

and the people. Hamilton was indeed a singular character. Of acute understanding, disinterested, honest and honorable in all private transactions, amiable in society, and honorable in all and duly valuing virtue in private life, yet so bewitched & perverted by the British example, as to be under thoro' conviction that corruption was essential to the government of a nation.

History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

We are in danger of government by professional office-holders Ã¢â'¬Â¦

postwar managers: if you want to avoid depression, spend money on war. No one told them that the same money spent on the country's infrastructure would have saved us debt, grief, blood.

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include personal government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the Government. —Bertrand Russell

You put the small thief in prison, but the big thief lives in a palace.

On the People's Democratic Dictatorship

A government based on fear attracts the worst elements, who corrupt it from within. A shaky edifice, a government against its people, any of its people, must soon collapse.

He understood better now. The mass called the shots. If the mass could not understand, then nothing he did, or Augustine did, or the Taskforce, would much matter. And the mass quite clearly understood nothing. The voices drifting his direction spoke of outrage at a government that would slaughter children, voices angrily denouncing "morning-after genocide.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. —Aristotle

Hanley said. "We've replaced them with corrected versions." "Corrected?" Cooper asked. "Explaining how the Apollo missions were faked to bankrupt the Soviet Union.

I'm an American, remember? I'm used to my government spying on me.

Unlike many such recipients of government largesse, however, she had qualifications beyond race, sex, and religion.

Government regulations had limited fabric lengths, banished pleats, and forbade having more than one pocket. Men now had a slim trim in the pant legs and women looked more military—gray flannel suits, low-heeled shoes in polished fake leather, shoulder-strap bags, berets and felt cloche hats.

Then the smoulders of shame and guilt flamed into anger, became fist-tightening rage at the unfairness of it: What kind of a government, I thought, what kind of a system allows suffering like this?