Quotes about Government

Why keep on enacting laws when we already have more than we can break

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.

After God had carried us safe to New-England, and wee had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, rear'd convenient places for Gods worship, and setled the Civill Government: One of the next things we longed for, and looked after was to advance Learning and perpetuate it to Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministery to the Churches, when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust.

Government can run and fund programs, but it can't love, it can't show compassion, and it can't embrace. Our faith is designed to have social implications, not just heavenly ones. The spiritual and the social must be connected.

If you can't compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you're rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.