Quotes about Society
Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.
- Barack Obama
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
- James Madison
Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.
- Ludwig Borne
People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.
- Will Rogers
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
- Edmund Burke
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
- John Updike
We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
- William Howard Taft
Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors.
- Bill Gates
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
- Thomas Jefferson
Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.
- Aesop
Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
- George Washington