A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions; but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.
I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.
Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone.
When you are in the infrastructure sector, you've to work along with the government.
Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.
Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
We see that pedantry has never been held in such esteem for the government of the world as in our times, and it offers as many paths of the true intelligible species and objects of infallible and sole truth as there are individual pedants.
If a debt crisis results from government profligacy and mismanagement, rather than from a market failure, it is true that the central bank should not intervene.
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.
This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.
Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.
Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.
What's hurting the U.S. economy is total government spending. The deficit is an indicator that the government is spending so much money that it can't even get around to stealing all of the money that it wants to spend. But the tip of the iceberg is not what hit the Titanic - it was the 90 percent of the iceberg under water.
The Ethiopian government's use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended for the Ethiopian forces.
Exporting oil would not drive up prices at the pump. American drivers buy refined products, which the U.S. already exports. Many studies - from a range of institutions and government agencies, including the Congressional Budget Office and the Energy Information Administration - have shown that lifting the export ban could actually lower gas prices.
I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion.
It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
I stand for all those who feel that the government no longer understands the individual and no longer respects individual rights.
Prodded by the needs of the Union cause, the Republican Party created a strong national government that educated young men and gave them land to farm. Ultimately, the GOP abolished slavery, then gave freedmen the vote so they could protect their own economic interests.
FDR's New Deal and, after it, Republican President Dwight Eisenhower's similar Middle Way, used the government to regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, and promote infrastructure, like roads and bridges.
We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.
How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.
I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies.
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.
Government is essentially immoral.
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.