Quotes about Government

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.

The more laws, the less justice.

Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.

Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.

For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God" (Rom. 13:1). God

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

You know what's interesting about Washington It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.