Top 1000 Government Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Let's make it simple: Government control means uniformity, regulation, fees, inspection, and yes, compliance.

Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

The consequences of turning a blind eye to government corruption go far beyond simply letting some corrupt politicians and bureaucrats walk free.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known.

Foolish people follow the system, get caught up in media news, what the government wants you to believe and all the higher powers want you to believe, and go down the same path as all the sheep in the cattle market.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

I can't sit here and be a hypocrite and say I'm for limited government, but I think the government should decide what women do with their bodies.

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

I was in Iraq in the worst period, 2006, but from 2006 to 2008, and especially through 2011, the American military and the government of Iraq made huge strides in making that country a source of stability with a relatively representative government that was seeking pluralistic engagement from all the factions within the government.

If the small government concept grows, we have fewer dollars leaving our pockets, we have more folks motivated to make a profit.

An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?

When it shall be known that, at the time which I was accused of wishing to sunder this island from France - my benefactress - I repeated the oath of fidelity to her, I take pleasure in believing that the government I own, and my fellow-citizens, will render me the justice I merit, and that the enemies of my brethren will be reduced to silence.

We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

When you are in local government, you are on the ground, and you are looking into the eyes and hearts of the people you are there to serve. It teaches you to listen; it teaches you to be expansive in the people with whom you talk to, and I think that that engagement gives you political judgment.

Since its inception, the government has broken and coerced treaties with hundreds of Native American tribes. And this is even worse when you realize that the native peoples of this land are negotiating for land that is, by all common sense and elementary school logic, their land.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.

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.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures.

Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

Financial crises require governments.

The Bill of Rights is a remarkable document because it weaves into the fabric of our democracy the idea that government has a responsibility to protect individual liberty.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

Racism is not first and foremost a skin problem. It is a sin problem. See, when you believe that racism is a skin problem, you can take three hundred years of slavery, court decisions, marches, and the federal government involvement and still not get it fixed right.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.

American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train's on track. They just keep ploughing ahead.

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety of its people and to protect and ensure our National security. And clearly port security has been left in limbo.

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.