Quotes about Government
government; instead, they would draw their salaries from the private sector. As a result, their dirty work, if exposed, would be chalked up to corporate greed rather than to government policy.
- John Perkins
The corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive.
- Theodore Roosevelt
If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
- Will Rogers
The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.
- Confucius
When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.
- Thomas Jefferson
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
- Thomas Jefferson
Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country.
- Ronald Reagan
The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.
- Calvin Coolidge
Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.
- Hilaire Belloc