A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.
The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
A reporter’s ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.
I consider anybody a twerp who hasn’t read ‘Democracy in America’ by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government.
It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.
That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
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.
If we don’t get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.
It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.
Making recess appointments when the Senate isn’t in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It’s a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.
Those who cry out that the government should ‘do something’ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.
Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they’d been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.
Humanity is going through a tough phase owing to the coronavirus pandemic. And the least we can do to help our government control its spread is to maintain social distance and stay isolated.
I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.
Liberals want the government to get bigger, and they want you to drive smaller cars, and they want to dictate the way you live.
The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.
We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.
We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops… and force migratory birds to stay where they are.
It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men’s property, which they had not before, as individuals.
