Government Quotes · Page 121

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what…

— Larry Flynt

Reviewing a government budget is much like going through the attic in an old home.

— Rick Scott

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

— Baruch Spinoza

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

— Clarence Thomas

You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

— Ralph Steadman

“In other words, the government of the democracy is the only one under which the power which lays on taxes escapes the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

My government has taken significant measures to enable the rise of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in our country.

— Ali Bongo Ondimba

The established government has no more right to call itself the state than the smoke of London has to call itself the…

— George Bernard Shaw

By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of…

— Michelle Bachelet

January 30th will be a historic day for the Middle East and the world. The Iraqi people will take the next step…

— Dana Rohrabacher

'An order is an order' was not an excuse to do the wrong thing. You couldn't just blindly follow a government order…

— Matt Shea

But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that’s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech…

— Mark Steyn

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection,…

— Andrew Jackson

So what is government?... Very simply, it is an agency of coercion. Of course, there are other agencies of coercion - such…

— Harry Browne

I think there are a good many Donald Trump voters who are sick of government as it is practiced in America and…

— Gene Weingarten

“For so long Marianne and Albrecht and many of their friends had known Hitler was a lunatic, a leader whose lowbrow appeal…

— Jessica Shattuck

If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate…

— Mike Huckabee

In terms of Iraq, al Qaeda valued Iraq because we destroyed a government it wanted destroyed and because we put soldiers on…

— Michael Scheuer

Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the…

— Oliver Ellsworth

Of the six men who have done most to make America the wonder and the joy she is to all of us,…

— John Chadwick

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too…

— Steve Wynn

I believe that God has endowed men with certain inalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Everyone talks about freedom. All around the world different people, different races, different countries are fighting for freedom. But what is freedom?…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so are so. There is nothing…

— Thomas Hutchinson

If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to…

— Luc de Clapiers

What's gonna happen to the arms industry when we realize we're all One?...You can see why the government's cracking down.

— Bill Hicks

I think I will still feel that same appreciation for what [Winston] Churchill and others have said is the worst form of…

— Barack Obama

800,000 Armenian deportees were actually killed... by holding the guilty accountable the government is intent on cleansing the bloody past.

— Djemal Pasha

I disapproved of the fact that the government here refused to adopt the few reforms that Gorbachev put over in the field…

— Stefan Heym

It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the…

— Satish Kumar

No, I’m not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us…

— Paul Ryan

For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of…

— Ronald Reagan

“The beautiful disease and The government falls along the weed rooms flesh along the weed government . . .”

— William S. Burroughs

Prior to the 16th Amendment, which authorized the individual income tax, tariffs had been one of the federal government's chief sources of…

— Scott Bessent

You see, in government, people give you a mandate, and you've got to fulfil that. Ours is very clear. Fix our public…

— Enda Kenny

Freedom means the U.S. government not being the main threat to countries around the world.

— Patrisse Cullors

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

— Plato

Belarus will become the first government in the world that opens wide opportunities for the use of blockchain technology.

— Alexander Lukashenko

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

— Adrian Cronauer

“...it...planted seeds of doubt as to whether we think diabolically enough when we wonder what our government is doing behind our backs.”

— Alexandra Zapruder