Government Quotes

The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different religious or ethnic backgrounds, to cooperate economically. Government intervention can’t do that.

As an Indian, I would like to back my government.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.

Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

I cannot accept this invitation for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever ‘fixed’ at the Philadelphia Convention… To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start. [Progressive]

The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge.

I’m in politics. I’m in government, so nothing surprises me.

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

My life isn’t over and I’m not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.