Quotes about Government

The Liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting on government, magistracy, or individuals.

It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

Parents don't care about their children; they're emotional, egotistical, selfish, and screw up their kids! Pastors knowingly mislead their flock by telling them that they can continue to sin and yet know God - because they themselves still sin. And we all know that the government does not care at all for the people.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Out of this modern civilization economic royalists carved new dynasties…. The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the Government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's business.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.