People are absolutely free to criticize the government and protest, but their protests should be in such a way as to improve the situation in the country and their life.
Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
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.
The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.
If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I’ve never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I’ve never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.
When we get government off the backs of our job creators, small businesses have a better chance of thriving. And when small businesses thrive, so does our economy.
No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.
When people think of digital diplomacy, they think of government tweeting. It is not what it is. That is public diplomacy.
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
The people’s government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
If we don’t want intrusive government, then we need to care for the least among us so that they are not exploited as a reason by the government for bigger government.
The Conservative party is at its strongest when it’s not the party that says there is no role for government and the state should just get out of the way. That is not a strand of Conservative thinking that, by itself, is enough.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
The Republican approach to handling the coronavirus and the economy is apparently not to turn to our government, but to put our heads down, go on as usual, and hope for a vaccine.
The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection.
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That’s the reality, not George Bush’s revisionist history!
