Government Quotes

The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He's put the law in the government's hands.

The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers.

We cannot have foreign governments interceding in our elections.

It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government.

The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.

An invention is something that was "impossible" up to then that's why governments grant patents.

I'm the kind of anarchist whose chief objection to the State is that it kills so many people. Government is the epitome of the deathist philosophy I reject.

The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually.

Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.

The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state.

The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.

No society has ever succeeded without a decent government.

If government is inevitable, the challenge is to come up with the most effective one possible.

I cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot become totalitarian without a centralized national police.

It is hardly lack of due process for the Government to regulate that which it subsidizes.

Environmental regulation looked like it was going to be under serious attack, and they were giving all of those speeches about getting government off people's backs.

Our rights come from God - not man, not a monarch, not a government.

I voted to repeal the government takeover of health care that raises costs, increases taxes, spends trillions of dollars that we don't have, cuts Medicare by $500 billion, and destroys jobs.

I am much more optimistic about consumer-driven change than I am governmental change. Anything can happen in government, but I do think we consumers can drive true change.

The Billy Carter of the British monarchy.

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government.

It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.

If the president finds time to help the mentally retarded, what are you doing that's so important? [Written underneath:] Working to get them out of Washington.

I've never met any strong critic of the United States anywhere in the world who gave us any credit for having limit on government.

If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration.

Government today, far from protecting property, is its main threat.

Do you work for the government, any government?” "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.

Since the beginning of recorded history, the business of government has been wealth confiscation.

It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot

Government is the enemy of conservatism and freedom.

The Federal Reserve and Congress have systematically taught the American people to trust the government and that caution in spending is harmful to the economy.

There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism.

We must educate ourselves and others about our precious civil liberties to ensure that we never accept demands that we give up our Constitution so that the government can pretend to protect us.

No matter how many pro-freedom politicians we elect to office, the only way to guarantee constitutional government is through an educated and activist public devoted to the ideals of liberty.

...[the federal] government [has no authority] to deliver a service,...and there's no evidence to show that government has ever been efficient [at] delivering...service.

Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?

All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and frequently their own wealth and power.

But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism.

Your money has never been safe in the government's hands, and it never will be. Governments spend money; it's just their nature.

If people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it.

I'm not against the FBI investigation in doing a proper role, but I'm against the FBI spying on people like Martin Luther King. I'm against the CIA fighting secret wars and overthrowing government.

Once you get the government involved in agriculture you'll have nothing but problems and expenses.

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.

The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a Government Program

The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose.

For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.

People don't start wars, governments do.