It is function of government to invent philosophies to…

If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."

— Gore Vidal

There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is…

— Bernie Sanders

The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, 'What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and…

— Ronald Reagan

The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.

— James Madison

The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - to spew out paper.

— Dave Barry

It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep…

— Anonymous

The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.

— Herbert Hoover

Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.

— Thomas Jefferson

I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all…

— Phil Crane

The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline.

— L. Neil Smith

“All that was once looked on as a function of the government is today called in question. Things are arranged more easily and more…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“The greed of a single person must never be allowed to subvert the function of government so that one person’s profit can be achieved…

— Rocco Leonard Martino

“The purpose of government, and therefore of law, is not to cause justice to prevail, but rather, to prevent injustice from reigning. Justice is…

— Joseph Befumo

The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always…

— Errico Malatesta