Government Quotes

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.

There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.

Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

What are we going to do if citizens are disarmed, and the government doesn't obey its own laws?

The United States government has always been proud of the welcome it has extended to good men of every nation, seeking freedom and homes and bread.

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

Less government in business and more business in government.

India is a continent and should be divided into separate nations. There is no need for a single government.

Governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.

In government, the scum rises to the top.

There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

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

Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.

Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

I'm going to fight for every person in America who believes government should serve the people, not the donors and not the special interests.

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.

The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

In Iran's future Islamic system everyone can express their opinion, and the Islamic government will respond to logic with logic.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.