Quotes about Government
Government can run and fund programs, but it can't love, it can't show compassion, and it can't embrace. Our faith is designed to have social implications, not just heavenly ones. The spiritual and the social must be connected.
- Tony Evans
If you can't compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries.
- Hillary Clinton
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
- Ronald Reagan
If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you're rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
- Ronald Reagan
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
- James Madison
Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
- Will Rogers
The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.
- James K. Polk
I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.
- Rick Warren
I was promoted to be a major, and every Allied government gave me a decoration—even Montenegro, little Montenegro down on the Adriatic Sea!
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
- John Adams