Top 1200 Purpose Of Government Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

We don't want the government to have anything we don't have, because government isn't 'We The People' anymore.

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.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

A limited government is much more likely to be a competent government.

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending.

Do you people not care about this bogus government shutdown garbage? Back in 2013 Rob Portman, the senator from Ohio, Republican, suggested the End Government Shutdowns Act. So the End Government Shutdowns Act introduced by Senator Portman, the bill, you know what this would have done? Well, the Democrats shot it down. The Democrats don't want to get rid of the weapon they have by threatening a government shutdown and knowing the Republicans are gonna get blamed for it.

I'm not in favor of no government. You do need a government. But by doing so many things that the government has no business doing, it cannot do those things which it alone can do well. There's no other institution in my opinion that can provide us with protection of our life and liberty. However, the government performs that basic function poorly today, precisely because it is devoting too much of its efforts and spending too much of our income on things which are harmful. So I have no doubt that that's the major single problem we face.

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

One of the reasons that I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over.

In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of tactics. Strategy has not to overcome resistance, except from nature. Its purpose is to diminish the possibility of resistance, and it seeks to fulfil this purpose by exploiting the elements of movement and surprise.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

We are here for the purpose of redeeming and regenerating the earth on which we live, and God has placed his authority and his counsels here upon the earth for that purpose, that men may learn to do the will of God on the earth as it is done in heaven. This is the object of our existence.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.

The military is not a social experiment. The purpose of the military is kill people and break things. It's not to transform the culture by trying out some ideas that some people think would make us a different country and more diverse. The purpose is to protect America.

Your purpose when driving is not to arrive at your destination safely or quickly. Your purpose when driving is...to impress your personality on the road.

Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.

In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.

A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.

Much worse than the unavoidable inefficiencies of large government is the failure to fund the government we need.

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

When Conservatives crusade against government while they are trying to be appointed to head the government, I think that's weird!

I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth.

If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.

Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.

The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.

To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a different purpose. The origin is shamanic, the purpose is shamanic.

People who don't believe in government are likely to defy our government.

The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.

The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.

It has been my experience that nothing changes a person's life more than the discovery of one solitary truth: There is a meaning and purpose to life. More specifically: There is a meaning and purpose to your life.

Government shutdowns do not actually become what the term implies. Two-thirds of the government cannot shut down. We're only talking about the third of government that's discretionary spending, and even at that, nobody loses their jobs, and nobody loses their Thanksgiving turkey. The whole thing has resulted from the Republican Party thinking they bought the farm back in 1995.

Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt.

The Modi government believes that the industrialist, the capitalist, has to pay for the assets of the government which belong to the people of India.

Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.

We have a government-to-government relationship with tribes, and they should have that opportunity to weigh in on important decisions that affect them.

The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.

Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.

In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.

I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with negroes. I am for it without negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space

I want to work closely with the government but it doesn't mean I become so weak and just toe the government line.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

I used to believe the purpose in life is to find happiness. I don’t believe that anymore. I believe we are all given gifts from our Father, and that our purpose is to offer them to Him. He knows how He wants us to use them.

The best government is not the one that you can serve in the longest, but the government that's closest to the people.

Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.

If the Tea Party gets its way, there will be less government - which is great for the elites. They don't need the government.

As a government watchdog, I'm always looking for ways to make government smaller, more efficient, and fairer.

Forms of government matter, in my opinion. It matters how -- the nature of the government in which people live.

A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

Without computers, the government would be unable to function at the level of effectiveness and efficiency that we have come to expect. . . . Today's government uses computers which are capable of cranking out millions of documents per day without any regard whatsoever for their content, thereby freeing government employees for more important responsibilities, such as not answering their phones.