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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
— John Adams
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
— Andrew Jackson
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
— Thomas Jefferson
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
— H. L. Mencken
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
— Abraham Lincoln
Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment camps here in the United States. The term 'Japanese internment camp' is both grammatically and factually incorrect.
— George Takei
Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.
— George Papandreou
Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
— William Lyon Mackenzie King
The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we're getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
— Al Franken
Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.
— Alan Dershowitz
It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting. 
— Tom Stoppard
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
— Saint Augustine
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
— Thomas Paine
Our politicians are stupid. And the Mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunning. And they send the bad ones over because they don't want to pay for them. They don't want to take care of them. Why should they when the stupid leaders of the United States will do it for them?
— Donald Trump
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
— George Bernard Shaw
Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.
— Ma Jun
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
— George Washington
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.
— Vladimir Lenin
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.
— Thomas Sowell
The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.
— Donald Trump
Man is not free unless government is limited.
— Ronald Reagan
I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.
— Edward Snowden
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
— James Madison
The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
— Theodore Roosevelt
People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.
— James Bovard
We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
— Carly Fiorina
No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change.
— Joe Biden
The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.
— Martin Van Buren
Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.
— Luke Scott
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
— Alexander Hamilton
In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.
— John Reed
To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.
— Alice Paul
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
— George Washington
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
— Barry Goldwater
No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will. 
— Thomas Jefferson
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
— Jeremy Bentham
An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
— Confucius
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
— Winston Churchill
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
— Ayn Rand
If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.
— Lysander Spooner
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
— Woodrow Wilson
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
— Thomas Jefferson
Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!
— Nathan Meyer Rothschild
Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.
— Lyn Nofziger
We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.
— Marco Rubio
The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.
— Orson Pratt
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself. 
— James Madison
Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.
— Matthew Lesko
Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
— Ban Ki-moon
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.
— William J. Brennan, Jr.
In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
— Cal Thomas
Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.
— Grover Cleveland
I hate the unfairness of injustice. Anybody who thinks they are better than others or 'chosen' or feel they have an entitlement... be it through monarchy, government or money. I think we are all born the same. We are entitled to an equal shot at life.
— Liam Cunningham
Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: 'Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?' If you don't ask those questions, your governance will not be good.
— Pope Francis
I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony of Patriots who, until the British government denied their claims, had always, like Ben Franklin himself, thought of themselves as free-born Englishmen.
— Edward Rutherfurd
Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.
— Barton Gellman
Governmental surveillance is not about the government collecting the information you're sharing publicly and willingly; it's about collecting the information you don't think you're sharing at all, such as the online searches you do on search engines... or private emails or text messages... or the location of your mobile phone at any time.
— Mikko Hypponen
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
— Andrew Jackson
On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.
— Meriwether Lewis
As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.
— Steve Forbes
We are not spending the Federal Government's money, we are spending the taxpayer's money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money's worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.
— Richard M. Nixon
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
— Louis D. Brandeis
The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
— Andrew Jackson
What makes me angry is when people know what is right but have, over the years, attuned themselves to the fact that what they're doing, stealing money from government, is acceptable.
— Miriam Defensor-Santiago
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.
— Alan Keyes
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
— Benjamin Franklin
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
— Charles de Gaulle
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
— Lily Tomlin
I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.
— Albert Bushnell Hart
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
— Alexander Hamilton
Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.
— Ben Shapiro
Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence.
— Mike Barnicle
When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.
— Michael Badnarik
Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
— William Henry Harrison
A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
— Otto von Bismarck
How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?
— Phyllis Schlafly
That some Forms of Government are preferable to others, cannot be doubted; yet neither our Saviour, nor his Apostles have decided where that Preference is due.
— Charles Inglis
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.
— Marco Rubio
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
— Edmund Burke
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
— Ludwig von Mises
Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.
— Steve Allen
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
— John Maynard Keynes
A government is for the benefit of all the people.
— William Howard Taft
I believe that the role of limited government should be looking after the needs of veterans, the elderly, children and those institutions that improve the quality of life for struggling families - I don't believe that government should bend to serve the needs of subsidized multi-national corporations and entitled billionaires.
— Moby
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
— Gore Vidal
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.
— Thomas Jefferson
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.
— Thomas Jefferson
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
— Leo Tolstoy
Corporations often partner with government after natural disasters, as many companies did in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As a rule, however, long-term civic/corporate partnerships are still rare .But this need not remain the status quo, as many opportunities are available for such partnerships.
— Simon Mainwaring
We believe in humility and integrity, the spirit of one people, bound together under God. We understand that the Constitution was written to control and regulate the government, not the people.
— Allen West
National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.
— Richard Perle
Government is essentially immoral.
— Herbert Spencer
All socialism involves slavery.
— Herbert Spencer
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
— Laurence J. Peter
The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
— Milton Friedman
Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.
— Dirk Kempthorne
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.
— Nelson Mandela
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
— Ronald Reagan
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
— Harry S Truman
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
— Anthony Kennedy
A government of, by, and for the people requires that people talk to people, that we can agree to disagree but do so in civility. If we let the politicians and those who report dictate our discourse, then our course will be dictated.
— Donna Brazile
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
— James Madison
Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.
— Henry Knox
We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what we buy and for whom we vote. We have been handing over to them vast quantities of information about ourselves and our friends, loved ones and acquaintances.
— Douglas Rushkoff
Some people think African states cannot be trusted with the cookie jar. But there are absolutely good NGOs who have this feeling of human solidarity and who also recognize that their work can only be supplementary to the government.
— Meles Zenawi
It's our moral obligation, as well as, I believe, it is the government's obligation to take care of its people.
— Marcia Fudge
One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
— Ronald Reagan
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
— Abraham Lincoln
The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.
— Mitt Romney
The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.
— Mitt Romney
The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.
— John B. Larson
I'm trying to fight the terrorism that's actually causing the other forms of terrorism. You know, the root cause of terrorism is the stuff that the U.S. government allows to happen, and the foreign policies that we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists. And it's easy for us because it's just some oil.
— Lupe Fiasco
The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate in, including media, non-governmental organisations and the public.
— Geoff Mulgan
We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.
— Jennifer Pahlka
I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers.
— Nas
The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people.
— Mike Pence
Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode. Real prosperity comes as a result of people's own initiative and efforts and so forth. Prosperity, if it comes from the government, is not prosperity. It's an existence or a subsistence or whatever, but it isn't prosperity.
— Rush Limbaugh
If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All we have to do is to establish a steady demand for good government.
— Lincoln Steffens
The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates a set of standards for our behavior.
— Vint Cerf
The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular, have been playing for time in order to conclude its mission of ethnic cleansing in the Sudan.
— Wole Soyinka
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.
— Thomas Sowell
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
— John Maynard Keynes
This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
— John Wycliffe
All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
— William Henry Harrison
For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration.
— Butch Otter
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
— Herbert Hoover
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
— George Washington
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
— Grover Cleveland
A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.
— Lysander Spooner
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
— Larry Flynt
The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
— H. L. Mencken
Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.
— Louise Slaughter
Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.
— Marco Rubio
The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
— Edmund Morgan
Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.
— William McKinley
I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
— Vince Cable
Good ideas are the backbone of good government.
— Brian Schweitzer
It's time that America's government lived by the same values as America's families. It's time we invested in America's future and made sure our people have the skills to compete and thrive in a 21st century economy. That's what Democrats believe.
— Harry Reid
Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.
— Henry Knox
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
— Will Durant
New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.
— Andrew Cuomo
I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.
— Andrew Cuomo
Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.
— Grover Norquist
Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
— Dale Dauten
Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.
— George W. Bush
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
— Isaac Asimov
To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
— Lewis Mumford
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
— Milton Friedman
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
— Rene Descartes
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
— Sydney J. Harris
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
— Thomas Paine
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
— Will Rogers
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.
— Will Rogers
If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.
— Ron Paul
You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.
— Rush Limbaugh
Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.
— Ha-Joon Chang
There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.
— Ron Paul
There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.
— Bruce Schneier
The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit.
— Mike Johanns
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.
— Albert Bushnell Hart
Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.
— Henry Knox
I believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on everything they do is unpatriotic. I believe a patriot stands up and holds your government's feet to the fire. Because if you do that, you will get good government.
— Jesse Ventura
In the long run, the government can't bring revival; only the Church can do that. But government can keep us safe and protect our freedoms. I believe that the Trump administration will do that.
— Robert Jeffress
It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.
— Harold MacMillan
To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.
— Louis D. Brandeis
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
— Harry S Truman
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
— Edmund Burke
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions.
— Vicente Fox
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.
— Mackenzie King
They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.
— Henry Knox
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
— Theresa May
When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.
— Joe Louis
What the government wants is something they never had before. They want total awareness. The question is, is that something we should be allowing?
— Edward Snowden
The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force.
— Ben Shapiro
Want to depose the government of a poor country with resources? Want to bash Muslims? Want to build support for American military interventions around the world? Want to undermine governments that are raising their people up from poverty because they don't conform to the tastes of Upper West Side intellectuals? Use human rights as your excuse!
— Stephen Kinzer
The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide an outlet for the currents that are accumulating, some day the spark will be generated.
— Jose Rizal
The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection.
— John Marshall
A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none.
— Robert E. Lee
Because tax cuts create an incentive to increase output, employment, and production, they also help balance the budget by reducing means-tested government expenditures. A faster-growing economy means lower unemployment and higher incomes, resulting in reduced unemployment benefits and other social welfare programs.
— Arthur Laffer
The Republican majority, left to its own devices from 1995 to 2000, was a party committed to limited government and restoring the balances of federalism with the states. Clearly, President Bush has had a different vision, and that vision has resulted in education and welfare policies that have increased the size and scope of government.
— Mike Pence
Let's make it simple: Government control means uniformity, regulation, fees, inspection, and yes, compliance.
— Tom Graves
It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
— Walter Cronkite
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
— Will Rogers
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
— Ronald Reagan
Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.
— Hugo Black
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
— Thomas Jefferson
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
— Will Rogers
In government, one actress is enough.
— Evita Peron
There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
— Stokely Carmichael
It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
— Will Rogers
Government is not the generator of economic growth working people are. 
— Phil Gramm
Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
— Federico Fellini
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
— John Adams
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
— H. L. Mencken
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
— Will Rogers
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
— Ronald Reagan
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
— William E. Gladstone
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
— Milton Friedman
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. 
— Denis Diderot
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
— Thomas Jefferson
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
— William O. Douglas
It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
— Tony Blair
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
— Confucius
The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.
— Mitch McConnell
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
— Ronald Reagan
The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.
— Milton Friedman
I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?
— Willie Nelson
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism.
— Daniel Ortega
For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.
— Mike Pence
Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.
— Tom Allen
In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.
— Charlton Heston
If God gives you rights, no man and no government can take them away from you.
— Roy Moore
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
— Jesse Helms
The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.
— Albert Bushnell Hart
Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.
— Joe Baca
When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
— Adam Weishaupt
No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
— Buenaventura Durruti
To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government.
— Kim Dae Jung
We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.
— Henry Knox
If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.
— Loni Anderson
What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press.
— Esther Dyson
Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights government should never be permitted to take those away. 
— Ernest Istook
In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment.
— Dennis Cardoza
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
— Thomas Sowell
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.
— Thomas Francis Meagher
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
— Franklin Pierce
The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
— Daniel Webster
In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
— David Hume
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
— Woodrow Wilson
If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.
— Robert Duncan
I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
— William Henry Harrison
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.
— Ron Paul
There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.
— Ron Paul
I think that when we look out with our underfunded liabilities and our national debt over $14 trillion, I think if we are part of that movement to get our government spending under control, I think that would be a tremendous legacy to leave.
— Ben Quayle
We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.
— Zachary Quinto
I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.
— Mitt Romney
We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.
— Alan Dershowitz
This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.
— Dee Dee Myers
Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.
— Andrew Cuomo
All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
— Iain Duncan Smith
We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.
— Christopher Reeve
Civil servants are fully aware of the challenges the British economy faces. They are, after all, working tirelessly and professionally to support the coalition government through the current challenges, every day, and in every part of Britain.
— Gus O'Donnell
I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship.
— Bharati Mukherjee
Parliament of the country is the repository of the sovereign will of the people, and its successful functioning is a joint responsibility of both the government and the Opposition.
— Pratibha Patil
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
— Abraham Lincoln
I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty.
— Olympia Snowe
A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.
— Annie Besant
The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging of the law, or the justice of the law.
— Lysander Spooner
The trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn by lot from the mass of the people, for the very purpose of having all classes of minds and feelings, that prevail among the people at large, represented in the jury.
— Lysander Spooner
Let's face it: we live at a time when government is less and less powerful, less and less effective, and the agent of social change, at least for the immediate future, is the corporation.
— Tibor Kalman
The freedom enjoyed in Western society under the rule of law and constitutional government explains both the quality of its civilization and its wealth.
— Paul Johnson
In the sixties, for anybody to suggest that the government didn't have our best interests at heart and policemen sometimes killed people would have automatically made them a radical firebrand lefty. That's not the case anymore.
— Alan Moore
Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.
— Richard M. Nixon
Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.
— Richard M. Nixon
Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let's make America work, let's make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody.
— Andrew Young
I think there would be no shortage of applicants to the government astronaut corps to be settlers on the planet Mars. And I think this would be very inspiring.
— Buzz Aldrin
We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.
— Veerappa Moily
All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.
— Michael Moore
I went from being a kid who loved to perform magic tricks to becoming the world's most notorious hacker, feared by corporations and the government.
— Kevin Mitnick
The Patriot Act is ludicrous. Terrorists have proved that they are interested in total genocide, not subtle little hacks of the U.S. infrastructure, yet the government wants a blank search warrant to spy and snoop on everyone's communications.
— Kevin Mitnick
I don't hate the government. I don't think the Second Amendment is being infringed upon.
— Henry Rollins