Quotes about Government
Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men
- Abraham Lincoln
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.
- Aristotle
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.
- Ayn Rand
Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.
- Henry David Thoreau
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
- Henry David Thoreau
To answer your question, how will it be done?" the old man had said. "How shall we accomplish the postponement of Satan establishing his Antichrist government? I am not at all certain it can be done. Notice I said postponement of, not stop, its establishment. I only know I must try to do my part to hold it off as long as possible.
- Terry James
Imagine going to book a flight and the agent politely pauses, looks up at you, and says that you are blacklisted. Your "social credit" score shows that you have been doing some things that don't sit well with the government. You are being punished, and part of the punishment is that you can't travel out of the country to visit relatives in America. You're shocked. You haven't even gotten a traffic ticket before. "There must be some mistake,
- Terry James
Hattaway, an insider and chronicler of the UCM, gives a picture of what the church could face in our hostile Western world: "Apparently the [Chinese] government is using a new method to deal with people when they arrest them. Instead of beating them, they are drugging them with a mind-altering chemical that diminishes the person's mental capacity."23 The Shandong Revival in China was perhaps one
- Terry James
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.
- Theodore Roosevelt
It is better for the Government to help a poor man to make a living for his family than to help a rich man make more profit for his company.
- Theodore Roosevelt