government quotes

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

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.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

The military can buy our diplomats some time.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

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

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

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 have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

Democracy passes into despotism.

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.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

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.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

I don’t follow politics much.

Politicians love regulating. That’s part of the whole power structure.

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable – even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

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.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

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

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

The FBI should not be a political body.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

I like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

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

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

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

Politics have no relation to morals.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.