Government Quotes
No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.
The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.
There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.
Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?
Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive
Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.
Dear Government... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to.
Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that's crashing.
If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it’s an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.
My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.
When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.
We make a great bad guy, and they all say they hate us. But at the end of every day, people want to trust us. Because we're their government. And people trust their government.
Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.
It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.
There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.
Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.
Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.
Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.
The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.
To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano.
The triune God exercises total government over all things, and He requires us as His image-bearers to exercise government in Christ in our own spheres in terms of His law.
For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview.
What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
No intelligence system can predict what a government will do if it doesn't know itself.
My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again.
A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.
When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.
The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.
As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly.
Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a government that wants to weaken them.
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
Christian conservatives care about their families eating. They're concerned about energy independence. They're concerned about functional government.
My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.
I think the founding fathers believed religion shouldn't interact directly with government.
You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.
In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.
I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.
Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.
Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.
My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do.
I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.
There was a time when the United States government earned the trust of its people. There was a time when most people believed that the United States government was protecting them.
Let me say this: I'm paranoid of the government. They've lost my trust. They've lied to me so many times that I don't know what to believe from them anymore.
I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.
