Quotes about Government
I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available.
- Jerry Falwell
The power to exterminate is too grave to be left in any hands but those of a thoroughly Communist government.
- George Bernard Shaw
I've always wondered: is there really any access to the White House?
- Lydia Millet
If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement.
- Robert Kiyosaki
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
- St. Augustine
Unjust laws aren't laws at all.
- St. Augustine
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
- Samuel Johnson
the import of the book was that even the king must obey the law, because the king is also under the law.
- Samuel Rutherford
For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of free people under God
- Ronald Reagan
Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can't ruin this country even with politics.
- Will Rogers
It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.
- Abraham Lincoln
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
- Henry David Thoreau