Government Quotes

Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

We have to have the faithful in government.

Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation... No government and no plan can succeed without it.

If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.

All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business.

The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.

You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.

I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair. And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.

The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.

The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we're open for university students coming into the U.K. There's a job here not just for the government, I think there's a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open.

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.

There's a big difference between the role of an academic and the role of someone in government. That's a cliche, but in academic life if you say things that are common sense and people nod their heads, it's not very useful. You're not adding anything.

We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.

Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.

This is not about being liberal. This is not about being conservative. This is about making sure our government works for all Americans.

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.

Tell the Government, our people shall not starve.

The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.

I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.