Government Quotes

"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem." "Maybe we shouldn't be too dependent on politicians trying to make us believe that we are safe only because of their actions" "There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you." "Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life." "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion" "That no free government or the blessing of liberty can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice moderation temperance frugality and virtue and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles" "The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted" "Now government is necessary for our mutual survival deception and lies our devastating hope" "In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem." "The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law" "The great advances of civilization whether in architecture or painting in science or literature in industry or agriculture have never come from centralized government" "Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program" "Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one" "Your success as a family, our success as a society, depends not on what happens in the White House, but on what happens inside your house" "The best minds are not in government If any were business would steal them away" "The main difference between government bailouts and charity is the recipient’s acknowledgment and the preparatory process" "The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms" "I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death" "The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny" "The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from its government"