Government Quotes

Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.

The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.

It's a vain hope to believe that people will voluntarily turn their back on government subsidies.

Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.

The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.

I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry.

That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of their faculties, and free choice of their occupations.

[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.

The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective

A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.

All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that's why we can't get anything done in the morning: We're government workers.

Nancy Pelosi said that when it comes to cleaning up government, the Democrats have drained the swamp. The only problem with that is what's left after you drain the swamp: snakes everywhere.

The government can't get away with large-scale famine, but it can get away with chronic hunger. It has become an accepted part of life in India.

I want to take this opportunity to express, one more time, my deep sadness to those countrymen who feel, rightly, that they were victims of my government.

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.

The best justification governments can find to shut down information is that lives are at risk. In fact, lives have been at risk as a result of the silences and lies revealed in these leaks.

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if youre one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.

I do not support the third party movement anymore. I now advocate the abolishment of all political parties. We've allowed the parties to take over the government.

Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

The government that is wise will consider what is best for all its people.

The Carter Center has a policy of doing what others do not want to do. We do not compete with the World Health Organization, the United Nations or the US government.

Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive.

It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.

That's the marvellous thing about seasteads; if a government fails, there's nothing much the people who live there can do about it. But if seasteads fail, they simply disassemble and go away.

[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.

No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.

We should always measure a government's environmental rhetoric against its environmental record

As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to.

For me all governments are my enemies and I've never made any bones about it any other way other than directly, and I don't fly the left flag or the right flag, me, I'm common sense.

By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

There is a long standing tradition of using code to evade censorship in China, so that goes on. The trouble is the Chinese government has created the world's most sophisticated censorship machine.

America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government.

What are you so mad about? That we still have a government? We still have “traffic lights.” We’re sorry. The government’s not perfect, but some people wish it was better, not gone.

The government should stop meddling in the business of the farmers, who would actually still be living ina desert if not for government meddling.

The price of loyalty is incompetence.

The government, the state, they're just objects of jokes rather than serious consideration. I can't possibly take them seriously.

In 2003... the White House conspired with an oil-company funded think tank to block a major government scientific report that sought to spell out the dangers of climate change to Americans.

Government is an inherently inflationary institution and will ever remain so until it is dispossessed of its monopoly of the supply of money.

Universal, equal, direct and secret elections in the U.S.S.R. will be a whip in the hands of the population against poorly functioning organs of government.

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

In Australia we have a government actively undoing what little progress had been made on climate change and stripping money from all the important institutions such as the ABC, CSIRO and SBS.

After listening to the radio, I learned what the North Korean government had been telling us about the war was not true. This myth allowed the North to hold the South responsible for the war.

I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.

The Government's mission is to build a strong and fair Australia capable of meeting the new challenges of the 21st century.

Hon Editor Cale Fluhart was a power politically fer years, but he never got prominent enough t' have his speeches garbled.