Government Quotes
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A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.
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I thought the whole idea of being a conservative was to keep the government from messing around in people's lives. And yet they say the government should be getting into people's families. That's messing pretty heavily where I come from.
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No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn.
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Is it just or reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be free? more just it is, doubtless, if it come to force, that a less number compel a greater to retain, which can be no wrong to them, their liberty, than that a greater number, for the pleasure of their baseness, compel a less most injuriously to be their fellow-slaves. They who seek nothing but their own just liberty, have always right to win it and to keep it, whenever they have power, be the voices never so numerous that oppose it.
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So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.
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The most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state.
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We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government--a balance that favors greater individual freedom and self-reliance.
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I feel like I am not an American in the eyes of my government because of their religious beliefs. I think that is un-American.
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Let's keep people with weird religious faiths out of government. Especially those who have a weird religious faith IN government.
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I'm not a big government guy. I believe in private industries taking care of people. I think they do a better job.
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He does everything a Marshal does but twice as hard, twice as dirty, and without the soft and cushioning arms of the government to wipe his tears.
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Maybe that's because guns are sold at a profit, while schools are provided by the government.
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The government is worst which governs most.
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The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty.
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I am proud to represent the first explicitly feminist government in the world, and one that has been at the forefront of advocating for greater attention to women, peace, and security.
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Government! Government! What do I get for all I give, I'd like to know! Potholes and bombs!
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Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not only into the three branches of the national government but also separated as between the whole national government, on the one hand, and the states and the people on the other.
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[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be found.
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Government is not competent enough to regulate.
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Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.
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The United States enjoy a scene of prosperity and tranquility under the new government that could hardly have been hoped for.
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We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.
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Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.
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People don't like the government telling them what to do or telling them how to live their lives.
