I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience. — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security… — Phil Crane Copy Share Image
The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The most basic function of government is to provide a framework of law and order, within which the people are free to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, 'What greater service we could render if only we had a little more… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“The purpose of government, and therefore of law, is not to cause justice to prevail, but rather, to prevent injustice from reigning.… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
You can be ideological; you can be passionate about your issues - I'm all for that. And there are some issues I… — George P. Bush Copy Share Image
There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Government must not supersede the will of the people or the responsibilities of the people. The function of government is not to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
My dad was always trying to impress upon me that the key to good governance - and winning elections - is to… — Jessica Tarlov Copy Share Image
To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“There is a real function for government in respect to pollution: to set conditions and, in particular, define property rights to make… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“All that was once looked on as a function of the government is today called in question. Things are arranged more easily… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be,… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
The function of our Government is to insure to all its citizens, now and hereafter, their rights to life, liberty, and the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The function of government is to provide you with service; the function of the media is to supply the Vaseline. — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“The greed of a single person must never be allowed to subvert the function of government so that one person’s profit can… — Rocco Leonard Martino Copy Share Image
The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - to spew out… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
