Government Quotes - Page 176

Thus, those who say they would have right without its correlate, wrong; or good government without its correlate, misrule, do not apprehend the great principles of the universe, nor the nature of all creation.

The Technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more CONTROLLED society. Such a society would be dominated by ELITE, unrestrained by traditional values.

I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.

The US economy today is in really bad shape. Our economic growth is minimal, our regulatory burden is horrific, taxes are high, businessmen are not investing in growth, and consumers and government are loaded up with debt.

Last year I had difficulty with my income tax. I tried to take my analyst off as a business deduction. The Government said it was entertainment. We compromised finally and made it a religious contribution.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

A functioning police state needs no police.

The best way for the Government to maintain its credit is to pay as it goes-not by resorting to loans, but by keeping out of debt-through an adequate income secured by a system of taxation, external or internal, or both.

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness and the right to worship God according to the dictates of ones conscience.

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

Americans - not just starting thirty years ago but going back to the beginning, when we were rebelling against King George - we've always been of two minds about the government, which is why the framers wrote the Constitution the way they did.

The door of the Free Exercise Clause stands tightly closed against any government regulation of religious beliefs as such. Government may neither compel affirmation of a repugnant belief, nor penalize or discriminate against individuals or groups because they hold views abhorrent to the authorities.

Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations.

The scandalous question that hangs over modern government and excites perpetual outrage is about political money and what it buys. What exactly do these contributors get in return for the hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars they funnel to the politicians?

The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats.

To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.

It is a good thing that we do not get as much government as we pay for.

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

If [the shooting of Gabby Giffords in] Tucson tells us anything at all, it tells us this: Government has failed.