My Government has provided equitable access to benefits and facilities of its schemes for the poor people; of all religions and all regions, and has, thus, earned the trust of the people of the country.
Once every American has a pony then I can – by fiat, executive order or something like that – dismantle the federal government with a snap of my magic fingers.
If you seek Hamilton’s monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton’s country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.
It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society.
Elites want to cut taxes and stop government regulation of business. Evangelicals want to make America a Christian nation. And alt-right voters want to purge the rights of minorities and women.
We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.
Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
Any government in the world, when facing an armed rebellion, has a constitutional, legal, and moral obligation to resist these militants.
I’m not really conservative. I’m conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don’t any more.
The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate in, including media, non-governmental organisations and the public.
Surveillance legislation fit for the 21st century, which strikes the right balance between privacy, security and democracy is a prize worth fighting for, and Labour will work constructively with the government to achieve it.
The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
The federal government does not have the authority to tell landowners and ranchers and farmers that they can’t farm and ranch their land because someday an endangered species might live there.
Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.
I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.
I’m not going to do anything that sees a Tory government be likely.
The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of the constitution, form the supreme law of the land.
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
