Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1081-1100] of 1384 Government quotesGovernment QuotesGovernment Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes If something is wrong for you or me, it is also wrong for the cop, the soldier, the mayor, the governor, the general, the Fed chairman, the president. Theft does not become acceptable when they call it taxation, counterfeiting when they call it monetary policy, kidnapping when they call it the draft, mass murder when they call it foreign policy. We understand that it is never acceptable to wield violence nor the threat of violence against the innocent, whether by the mugger or the politician.~ Lew Rockwell The only reason for a government service is precisely to provide financial support for an operation that is otherwise unsustainable, or else there would be no point in the government’s involvement at all.~ Lew Rockwell You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.~ Dr. Adrian Rogers A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief.~ Will Rogers Hurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!~ Will Rogers I don't make jokes -- I just watch the government and report the facts.~ Will Rogers This thing about getting rid of a man in the Cabinet is all right, but there is one bad feature to it that few people realize. That is, that unfortunately every one of them is replaced by someone else. If it wasn't for that, this resignation business would be great.~ Will Rogers The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer.~ Will Rogers That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.~ Will Rogers Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.~ Will Rogers Things in our country run in spite of the government, not by the aid of it.~ Will Rogers On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only people in the world that has to keep a government four years no matter what it does.~ Will Rogers On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.~ Will Rogers Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for the criminally insane actually read one once clear through. Then he did something about it. He made a bonfire that lasted a week.~ Will Rogers There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.~ Will Rogers Will somebody please tell me what they do with all the Vice-Presidents a bank has? Why the United States is the biggest business institution in the world, and they got only one Vice-President and nobody has ever found anything for him to do.~ Will Rogers I am convinced that we can do to guns what we've done to drugs: create a multi-billion dollar underground market over which we have absolutely no control.~ George L. Roman Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.~ Eleanor Roosevelt Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money.~ Eleanor Roosevelt The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government.~ Franklin D. Roosevelt Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print