Quotes About Government

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

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.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.