government Quotes

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it’s the government’s role to provide everything.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent.

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven’t had any moral compass, who’ve just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they’re losers.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it’s an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can’t stop me… It’s called senility.

But then it hasn’t really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.

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.

Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies – an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as ‘investment.’