Government Quotes

The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.

The government needs to send out a message to the business community that ‘we are on your side.’

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.

The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.

We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few.

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.

I’m not against the government building roads. That is a legitimate government function. But I am very much against the government claiming that their building the road is the reason somebody on the road is successful.