Government Quotes - Page 2

The government is just too big, and we have to make it smaller; people are getting lost.

If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All we have to do is to establish a steady demand for good government.

Budgets are moral documents. They reflect the values of any government and when you're compromising clean air, clean water, and lead, you're making a statement about communities you don't care about.

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

I've always been the outsider. I've always been regarded as some extraordinarily dangerous figure. I'm none of those things! I'm just a middle-class boy from Kent who likes cricket and who happened to have a strong view about a supernational government from Brussels.

I am sure of my ability to form a good government.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

You have to ask yourself seriously: does this government really want to do things or is it more interested in class struggle?

Exceptional circumstances can accelerate the gradual process of energy transitions: France's decision to develop nuclear energy on a grand scale is perhaps the best example of how that can be done by government fiat. In contrast, America's accelerated shift from coal has been driven by an inevitable embrace of cheaper natural gas.

I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established.

I know people don't like America very much, but the one thing it's very good on is local government.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

Government has to be cut back like asparagus... every day... or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there's too much of it, the flower becomes a weed.

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

I don't hate the government. I don't think the Second Amendment is being infringed upon.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.

In a tripartite government with its checks and balances, we have lost the balances.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.

We believe in humility and integrity, the spirit of one people, bound together under God. We understand that the Constitution was written to control and regulate the government, not the people.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?

We've listened to our businesses, and we know they want more tools online so they can do business faster - with less interaction with government.

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Theft and corruption in the private sector is as bad as that in government and must be dealt with decisively by law enforcement agencies.

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.