Government Quotes
The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the revelation was not binding.
Setting aside labels, I am somebody who believes that government in a democratic society should be representing the needs of the vast majority of the people who are middle-class and working families.
In America, we are living in a society which is moving more and more toward an oligarchic form of society where government is dominated heavily by big-money interests.
The national government was itself the creature of the States...Yet today it is often made to appear that the creature, Frankenstein-like, is determined to destroy the creators.
I think that the growing government control of the press is very clear. Turkey is still not a dictatorship, there is still some freedom of the press, but I think it's moving in the wrong direction.
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.
What the federal government does basically is borrow money from people and mail it to people.
Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government, and to that extent deserves our support.
The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.
Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.
All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.
The United States enjoy a scene of prosperity and tranquility under the new government that could hardly have been hoped for.
The government is supposed to respond to the will of the people. Not dictate to the people what they are doing.
Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
'Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government.
It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people.
Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?
The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.
The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity.
Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.
I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.
The most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state.
It's just common sense that if you only have one candidate remaining, the apparatus of government should be responsive enough to accommodate that and not spend any more taxpayer money,.
Supreme Court nominees should be individuals who not only understand, but truly respect the equal roles and responsibilities of different branches of government and our state governments.
If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything-and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.
A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.
Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.
The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.
If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.
My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.
In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.
The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.
Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and our idea of limited government and that it will destroy the best health care system in the world.
When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.
Lawmakers need to be held accountable and should feel the impact of a government shutdown just like many other Americans will.
SETI is probably the most important quest of our time , and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently.
I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end.
I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose.
In Memory of BPP Comrades Fred Hampton & Mark Clark, both assassinated by the US Government via the state and local government of Chicago, Illinois, December 4, 1969.
