By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

We have the best government that money can buy.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Empire and liberty.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

I love being in the United States Senate.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

Most members of Congress are politicians. They’re bores.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Government isn’t that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you’ve got to have commercial companies do it.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

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.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people’s trust in their government.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‚nirvana‘ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.