Quotes About Government

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people.

Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.

Could America exist without an income tax? The idea seems radical, yet in truth America did just fine without a federal income tax for the first 126 years of her history.

Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.

The US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

Let us never forget this fundamental truth: The State has no source of money other than the money people themselves earn.

The Liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting on government, magistracy, or individuals.

The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody...It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

Objective truth itself is sometimes often seen as a right wing Republican-Christian plot to take over the government (though the rhetoric is cleverer than that, that's the bottom line).

The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.

There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.

In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again.

I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and methods to hide the truth.

I'm concerned about truth and credibility in government.

It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.

Truth can be sifted out from falsehood only if the government is vigorously and consistently cross-examined, so that the fundamental issues of the struggle may be clearly defined

I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.

Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.