“Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.”
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“World War II was the last government program that really worked.”
“Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.”
“As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.”
“I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.”
“We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.”
“It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.”
“The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.”
“Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.”
“Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.”
“And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.”
“In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.”
“While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.”
“But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.”
“And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.”
“Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.”
“If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.”
“There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.”
“The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.”
“Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.”
“The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.”
“Good government is the outcome of private virtue.”
“Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.”
“History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.”