Quotes about Government
When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.
- Tony Campolo
Why should the government subsidize intellectual curiosity?
- Ronald Reagan
Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.
- Thomas Jefferson
Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.
- Winston Churchill
Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.
- Mark Twain
We just need the government to be that greenhouse that permits our faith to grow.
- Max Lucado
We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.
- Wendell Berry
Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He's put the law in the government's hands.
- Rick Warren
The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers.
- Rick Warren