Government Quotes · Page 170

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

— William Weld

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

Certainly the Government has tried to handle the matter of our relations with the rest of the Continent in a very sensitive…

— Thabo Mbeki

For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might…

— Cornel West

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

— William Weld

They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its…

— Thomas Jefferson

Government cannot guarantee much, but it can and should guarantee freedom of opportunity.

— Chris Sununu

My job is to be skeptical: skeptical of people like Edward Snowden and skeptical of the U.S. government.

— Jake Tapper

The next time you hear me attacked as a socialist - like tomorrow - remember this: I don't believe that government should…

— Bernie Sanders

The tendency of all strong governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly…

— John A. Hobson

Voting Liberal is a non-thing. Historically, it might be a good idea to have a Conservative government, because change is a good…

— John Mortimer

Unfortunately, it is not in the power of government to make everyone more prosperous. Government can only raise the income of one…

— Hans F. Sennholz

Anarchy is... a form of government or constitution in which public and private consciousness, formed through the development of science and law,…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation…

— Malcolm Mclaren

America was the first country in history to be founded on, people have rights. Not the divine right of kings, not the…

— Charles Koch

[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the…

— James A. Michener

The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because…

— James Madison

“The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper…

— Ayn Rand

“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions…

— George Orwell

Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of…

— James Madison

I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions,…

— Henry David Thoreau

During the first formative centuries of its existence, Christianity was separated from and indeed antagonistic to the state, with which it only…

— Bernard Lewis

Every single American can exclaim, 'Nothing justifies what they did in New York and Washington,' not even the bombs that our government…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

After the Revolution in '49, all the films were propaganda. They serviced the government and carried the message that the government wants…

— Wong Kar-wai

One of the biggest challenges for any Home Secretary - indeed, any government - is how we deal with emerging threats.

— Amber Rudd

Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

— Beatrice Webb

Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.

— Marco Rubio

“Better to live under one tyrant a thousand miles away, than a thousand tyrants one mile away.”

— Daniel Bliss

The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult.

— Anonymous

Barack Obama was a president who understood not only how technology could transform the way government services worked but also technology itself.…

— Steven Levy

“Other nations merely change governments as a lady changes dancing partners: Canada contrives to fall in a dead faint every time the…

— Gordon Donaldson

I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society.

— Dave Rubin

Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.

— Franz Grillparzer

The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.

— Victoria Woodhull

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art…

— Oscar Wilde

My guide is the Modi government at the Centre. It's my inspiration. I will follow that.

— Yogi Adityanath

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

— George W. Bush

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a…

— John Adams