Quotes About Government

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Large swathes of people losing faith in democracy is a dangerous thing. Conflict, desperation, totalitarianism are the products of that loss of faith.

The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.

I think the FISA court's basically totally irrelevant.

The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people. We must always be clear that the example is set at the top.

Religion and God are totally separate. Religion is created by government. God is God.

There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

At heart, American conservatives like myself are believers in the Constitution. We believe that the principles embodied in the Constitution are enduring, and that to whatever extent we deviate from them we put our liberties at risk. Our views are consistent because we believe in absolute truths and the essential soundness, even righteousness, of the Founder's vision of government.

that all men are… endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among those are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." That is, they recognized that their rights derived from God, not government, and

limitations on government to guard against its natural tendency to expand at the expense of individual liberties. They reserved for the states those rights not granted to the federal government and distributed federal power among three separate, coequal branches of government.

Liberty is our watchword. Liberty is what makes America unique. The left, by contrast, has all but abandoned liberty in favor of government-forced outcomes, though their agenda guarantees not only less liberty but less prosperity as well.

the left seeks to redefine liberty as selfishness.

Politics: A combination of "poli" meaning many, and "tics" meaning irritating little bugs.

Do not separate text from historical background," admonished James Madison. "If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.

While no censorship would be placed on the citizens, every person was responsible if he attacked the government in speech or writing, and such actions would lead to a criminal prosecution in a federal court.

government is but an instrument of the people, its powers forever subordinate to their rights as human beings.

In free governments, the rulers are the servants and the people their superiors and sovereigns." – Benjamin Franklin

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." – George Washington How

THE BILL OF RIGHTS THE FIRST AMENDMENT Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

True patriotism is belief in the ideals that this nation was founded upon; it is not ignorance of them and unthinking, endless devotion to government.

The crime of seditious libel implies that the people are inferior to the state, and that their criticisms are unacceptable to their master. An

our freedom to express discontent with and even anger at our government's actions is vital to the preservation of a free and open society.

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." – Thomas Jefferson

should Americans ever find themselves faced with an incorrigible government of totalitarian oppression, a government that has abandoned the very principles this nation was founded upon and that reconstituted a slavery like that of the past, then the people have the natural, inalienable right to change the government as they see fit, and the spirit of this amendment clearly applies.