If someone builds a fortune, it belongs to him, not the government. An entitled government undermines liberty. — Kevin Hassett Copy Share Image
France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that for any practical purpose, it is what the people think… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democracy does.” — Eric Robert Morse Copy Share Image
My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I would much rather see responsibilities exercised by individuals than have them imposed by the government. — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We need better options for securing the Internet. Instead of looking primarily for top-down government intervention, we can enlist the operators and… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
In Russia, whatever be the appearance of things, violence and arbitrary rule is at the bottom of them all. Tyranny rendered calm… — Marquis de Custine Copy Share Image
There are over 170,000 pages of regulations in Washington, D.C. I want to streamline the rules in the federal government to basically… — Jason T. Smith Copy Share Image
... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of… — Plato Copy Share Image
I want diversity to be at the very heart of the BBC and not delivered by some other party with increased government… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
There is the bipartisan pretense that the FBI is the only government agency in Washington that is above reproach. Yet, this is… — Tom Fitton Copy Share Image
The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Just look at that Forbes 400. Takes a billion three to get on the Forbes 400 this year. And the aggregate wealth… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“In my father's last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility for the running… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Much of American wealth is an illusion which is being secretly gnawed away and much of it will be completely wiped out… — Howard Ruff Copy Share Image
I think, you know, what we've had for many years is a federal government that's not particularly concerned with the structure of… — Edward Alden Copy Share Image
The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
At first glance, an alliance of anarchists and government might appear to be somewhat paradoxical. But the formal convergence in Oakland makes… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
These are people who don't believe the government can possibly get too big. It's not possible for it to get too big.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people from religion; that amendment was written to protect religion… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“No man can rightfully be required to join, or support, an association whose protection he does not desire.” — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Earlier this month the State Department gave the umpteenth performance of its popular play, Please Tread on Me, with Ceylon as guest… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Any strategy to promote democracy and human rights must have the fight against corruption at its heart. — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
When government misleads the country about a terrorist attack, that erodes trust. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Our collaboration in building innovative technologies will support the Make in India vision of the Indian government. — John L. Flannery Copy Share Image
Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression. — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and… — Caryl Churchill Copy Share Image
The Veterans Health Administration is a perfect case study of how government should stay out of patient care altogether. — Mercedes Schlapp Copy Share Image
When the government says we're going to build something on behalf of the community, we do it. — Gladys Berejiklian Copy Share Image
I came into politics because of my opposition to what a Tory Government was doing to the community I grew up in. — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
That's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
When we find a ship, we turn it over to the state or federal government. It's purely historical. I've never made a… — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
There's a lot of potential for machine learning all around the world. We're seeing it in academia, at other companies, in government. — Jeff Dean Copy Share Image
The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
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