Quotes about Government

I would use the debt limit. I don't want to say - I want to be unpredictable, because, you know, we need unpredictability. Everything is so predictable with our country.

In Washington, you have imaginary problems, and they can't even solve the imaginary problems.

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

Not everything can be solved by government.

Israel is the only democratic country in the Middle East.

Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes. { Letter to celebrated scientist Alexander von Humboldt , 6 December, 1813 }

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.

When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.