Quotes about Government
Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.
- Bill Gates
Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.
- Alain de Botton
The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.
- Abraham Lincoln
If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.
- Stephen Colbert
The government says they have loaned over One Billion dollars to the Farmers. In other words, we can't help you make any money, but we will show you where you can owe some more.
- Will Rogers
If you ask what's best for the country, vote Republican. If you ask how will you get more money from the government, vote Democrat.
- Dennis Prager
We can say, "if you want government money, you have to make this data public - you have to share it."
- Joe Biden
'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
- Alexander Hamilton
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
- Samuel Johnson
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.
- Aristotle