Government Quotes

"Our American dream is under siege because our government has been hijacked by special interests and used as a weapon against common citizens. The people must be sovereign." "The bigger concern may be that now we have a rapidly growing economy and ample capital, but a failure of the government and society, to allocate it properly." "We have a Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities" "We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties" "Every step we take towards making the state the caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the state our master." "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation" "You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing" "If men were angels no government would be necessary" "In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought by the military-industrial complex" "Public policy can help, but there is no government that can fix these problems for us." "The office of the sovereign, be it a monarch or an assembly, consisteth in the end for which he was entrusted with the sovereign power, namely the procuration of the safety of the people." "Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure" "Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame" "Political chaos is connected with the decay of language." "I think the government must govern as the citizens allow it to govern."