The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.
There was a time when the United States government earned the trust of its people. There was a time when most people believed that the United States government was protecting them.
When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
The rule of law should be upheld by all political parties. They should neither advise others to break the law, nor encourage others to do so even when they strongly disagree with the legislation put forward by the government of the day.
Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.
Do you know who the real hypocrite is? It’s the federal government and the Justice Department. It’s a fraud; it’s a lie. They have no interest in the education of black children. They are only interested in the politics of it.
The human spirit is stronger than any government or institution.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
You cannot have a government for and by the people if it is not represented by all of the people.
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it’s only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
We can afford all these wars; this, that, the other thing, why can’t every American have a pony? If you break it down, if you do the math, the government could afford to give you a pony. Don’t let them tell you they couldn’t, they could.
I am in favour of disinvestment. But if a disinvested company has to tie up with a government company for its livelihood, there is a problem.
Parliament of the country is the repository of the sovereign will of the people, and its successful functioning is a joint responsibility of both the government and the Opposition.
I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
Problems in our country haven’t been caused by Donald Trump, America and its ambitions or CIA spies. Our problems are rooted in a bad government system, the lack of free elections, independent courts and freedom of speech.
