Quotes about Government
Christians are increasingly being punished by the government for acting on their sincerely held religious beliefs about marriage that are based on the standard of Scripture.
- Ken Ham
A government is the most dangerous threat to man
- Ayn Rand
No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or less extent, with the affairs of human government.
- Charles Finney
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.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.
- Thomas Jefferson
Today the devil as a wolf in supposedly a new suit of sheep's clothing is enticing some men to parrot his line by advocating planned government guaranteed security at the expense of our liberties.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.
- Calvin Coolidge
Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.
- Ronald Reagan
The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.
- Theodore Roosevelt
That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
- Henry David Thoreau
I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].
- James Madison
One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.
- Will Rogers