Government Quotes

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

Liberal democracy has endured because its institutions are designed for handling morally hazardous forms of coercive power. It puts the question of how far government should go to the cross fire of adversarial review.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

The Supreme Court and courts in general have been usurping the role of the legislative branch of government.

Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.

When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.

The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.

I had been raised in the mountains of Idaho by a father who distrusted many of the institutions that people take for granted - public education, doctors and hospitals, and the government.

There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money.

The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.

We will never hear about people's Bitcoin accounts being frozen or seized by a government agency.

I definitely think my ancestry has something to do with my politics. And I think being deeply suspicious of government and communists is implicit in a lot of first-generation immigrants, particularly from Eastern Europe. My mom came over from Romania when she was a kid and they fled the commies who took their family hemp farm.