Top Government Quotes

It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exempted from active military duty. But there are no exemptions for people who, for reasons of conscien...

Copyright: a system of monopoly privilege over the expression of ideas that enables government to stop consumer-friendly economic development and reward uncompetitive and legally privileged elites to...

Government Definition

(n.) The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government.

(n.) The mode of governing; the system of polity in a state; the established form of law.

(n.) The right or power of governing; authority.

(n.) The person or persons authorized to administer the laws; the ruling power; the administration.

(n.) The body politic governed by one authority; a state; as, the governments of Europe.

(n.) Management of the limbs or body.

(n.) The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case.

Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government...

Liberty is a constant battle between government; who would limit it, people; who would concede it, and patriots; who would defend it.

An act of charity by the citizens questions the worthiness of the government.

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling f...

Anyone even remotely suspect was interrogated, because interrogation is by far the most effective method of speedily banishing inappropriate thoughts from the mind.

Kill someone on the behalf of yourself, you get deemed a murderer. Kill someone on behalf of your Government, you get deemed a hero.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

Maintaining a fair and accessible justice system should at all times be the overarching concern of Government

If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!

Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all bored, or threa...

Authority is not a power, it is a responsibility.

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.

We (libertarians) find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.

Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are to...

Historical definition of a country's borders... "...here's where my murder geography ends and your murder geography begins, at least until I get more murderers to expand my murder-fest.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to sur...