They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program
George W. Bush
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it
Ronald Reagan
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves
Henry David Thoreau
Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth
Mark Twain
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests
Patrick Henry
I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government
Woody Allen
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong
Voltaire
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government
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This isn’t about the conflict; it is about the government doing nothing to acknowledge the current human rights violations being committed against Tamil civilians.
Anna Neistat
Our government sprang from and was made for the people -- not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance; from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom
Andrew Johnson
The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita
Thomas Jefferson
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State
Thomas Jefferson
Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets
Ronald Reagan
Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?
Ronald Reagan