Quotes about Government

“Local government is a gamble that can have disastrous consequences when it fails.”

“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.”

“We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.”

“Foolish people follow the system, get caught up in media news, what the government wants you to believe and all the higher powers want you to believe, and go down the same path as all the sheep in the cattle market.”

“Mobilize your friends and neighbors to understand that your day-to-day involvement with local government matters far more than a referendum on the White House every four years.”

“Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.”

“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.”

“Every good government's duty is to do more for the regions that are underdeveloped.”

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”

“I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.”

“There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.”

“Good government is one of the most important factors in economic growth and social well-being.”

“If you want to believe that the government's coming for our guns or that being gay is a choice and a sin or that ObamaCare signals the end of civilization or that cutting taxes for rich people is the path to a better America, that's your choice. I'm never going to believe in any of that.”

“While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.”

“Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.”

“Budgets don't balance themselves, it takes fiscal discipline, and both the union and the government will have to show taxpayers that discipline.”

“Anarchists believe we can run our lives without the government.”

“I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.”

“If the government decides to become a tyrannical government, our guns are to protect us against that.”

“Success is created in studio apartments and garages, at kitchen tables, and in classrooms across the nation, not in government conference rooms in Washington.”

“Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale!”