Government Quotes - Page 95

In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.

Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of a thaumatrope may derive profit from his ingenuity, whilst he who unravels the laws of light and vision, on which multitudes of phenomena depend, shall descend unrewarded to the tomb.

We must remember that ours was intended to be a citizen government, and we must work together to restore our country and the character of our nation.

Socialism starts when government creates a problem, and then government steps in to solve the problem.

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.

At a time when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the export of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy for the United States to export tobacco.

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

Government can take your money at gunpoint; businesses have to persuade you.

The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.

I think the right-wingers have to buddy up to the fact that either the minimum wage has to go up, and people get enough money to live, or you're always going to have people needing government assistance. You can't have it both ways.

Trusting the government to monitor your calls without listening. It's kind of like trusting Chris Christie to pick up the McDonald's and not eat the fries on the way home.

This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.

The safest way to ensure diversity of opinion is diverse ownership. But this ideal has been sacrificed by our government.

Government should stay the hell out of people's business.

The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.

The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions. We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs of state separate from the uncompromising idealism of religious groups and we mustn't stop now. To retreat from that separation would violate the principles of conservatism and the values upon which the framers built this democratic republic.

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

Government without a tough and vibrant media is not an option for the United States of America.

The source of the government's authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant or agent of the citizens; it means that the government as such has no rights except the rights delegated to it by the citizens for a specific purpose.

The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it.

All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?

There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.