Quotes about Government
Man is not free unless government is limited.
- Ronald Reagan
You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.
- Adrian Rogers
The Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying, it's declared purpose was to protect their freedom to pray
- Ronald Reagan
What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.
- GK Chesterton
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
- Edmund Burke
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
- Aristotle
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community
- St. Thomas Aquinas
When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.
- Mark Twain
The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nationallthe time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
- Mark Twain
There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.
- Will Rogers
Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.
- Theodore Roosevelt