Top Government Quotes

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

There has never been a more important time to vote for the Green Party!

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.

The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one could argue, to whom one could pre...

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

My Son, Only Tax and Death are for sure.

When I argue with devout statists, sometimes other voluntaryists tell me that I'm wasting my time, opining that a particular statist is never going to "get it." I often respond by saying that that's r...

The only thing I'm afraid of about this country is that it's government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot, and then it wouldn't be worth living...

It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

Americans no longer look to government for economic security rather, they look to their portfolios.

That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitous...

Better to live under one tyrant a thousand miles away, than a thousand tyrants one mile away.

Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their...

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Public trust in both government and corporations is low, and deservedly so.

Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional ruling class.

Private property and free trade stand on exactly the same footing, both being essential and indivisible parts of liberty, both depending upon rights, which no body of men, whether called governments o...

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government.

[I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments.

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.