Government Quotes

Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time a...

The number one responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follo...

A libertarian is somebody who believes, of course, in personal liberty. And liberty is a personal th...

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worke...

Ideas are very important for the shaping of society. In fact, they are far more powerful than bombs ...

Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

It must be remembered that a vast majority of mankind’s history has been spent living under the rule...

Ideas are very important for the shaping of society. In fact, they are far more powerful than bombs ...

Ideas are very important for the shaping of society. In fact, they are far more powerful than bombs ...

And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into believing that government c...

An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring...

Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised...

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It...

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a...

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civi...

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in d...

Let me speak plainly: The United States of America is and must remain a nation of openness to people...

It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and th...

The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measur...

There was a time when the United States government earned the trust of its people. There was a time ...

Liberals want the government to get bigger, and they want you to drive smaller cars, and they want t...

Obamacare is not about improved health care or cheaper insurance or better treatment or insuring the...

No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, ...

The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous w...

I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen ato...

Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferr...

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government...

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of go...

I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic ...

Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the...

When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that ...

He told us that nations of men fell into disorder, so nations of law were set up instead. He told us...

Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is t...

When Buzz gets in, he won't be having any parade of wounded soldiers. That'll be bad Fascist psychol...

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned even the meanest yet every one thinks himself suffici...

Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgmen...

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow t...

Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the un...

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to...

Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you...

In a democracy we sometimes have to put up with things we don't life or approve of.

As an Auyana man living in New Guinea under the Pax Australiana put it, “Life was better since the g...

States are far less violent than traditional bands and tribes. Modern Western countries, even in the...

The government should help and guide the weak and small racial groups within its national boundaries...

We know a way now to make use of democracy, and we know how to change the attitude of people towards...

It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they a...

It's to the Capitol's advantage to have us divided among ourselves.Another tool to cause misery in o...

Everything not forbidden is compulsory

Republics never survive, for their people do not like freedom but prefer to be led and guided and fl...

Part of what psychedelics do is they decondition you from cultural values. This is what makes it suc...

The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Suprem...

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corrupt...

I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were repo...

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

Being an absolute ruler today was not as simple as people thought. At least, it was not simple if yo...

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people for all the people by all the people.

Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming mega...

Is that all, sir? Only we've got stuff to finish before our knocking-off time, you see, and if we st...

Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia...

Vimes had once discussed the Ephebian idea of ‘democracy’ with Carrot, and had been rather intereste...

I believe the term is ‘eminent domain.’Ah, yes. That means ‘theft by the government,

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not ...

The government is us; WE are the government, you and I."- Theodore Roosevelt

The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they thi...

In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom.

Surely of all ‘rights of man’, this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gent...

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; ...

We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedent...

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle...

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of goo...

That government is best which governs the least because its people discipline themselves.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies,...

Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of ...

If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council o...

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trus...

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the ...

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government and to protect its free ...

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be sa...

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that th...

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary too many parasites living on the lab...

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gate...

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors...

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be tru...

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at...

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an...

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors ...

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political b...