Government Quotes · Page 268

I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it.

— Bob Thaves

At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize…

— Joseph Sobran

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

— Max Weber

The Government have made it clear that the constitutional treaty will be ratified in the UK only after a referendum.

— Geoff Hoon

[T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want.

— John Stossel

You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.

— Antonin Scalia

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience…

— Marco Rubio

Depending on your culture, you can make physician which treats you feel himself like a veterinarian.

— Ilkin Santak

Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That…

— Anonymous

“So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of…

— Plato

We must never forget what government is not. Government is not a philanthropic organization. Government is not the family. And government certainly…

— Michele Bachmann

We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all…

— Paul Ryan

What we're doing on 'The West Wing' is fictional. It's not a place to learn about politics or government. Has there ever…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing,…

— Meg Greenfield

First and foremost, the onus is on yourself to perform your own duties. If you can't, then it's your family or community's…

— Yoshihide Suga

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but…

— Oscar Wilde

I did attempt to find out if there were any secret government documents that revealed things. If there were, they were concealed…

— William J. Clinton

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

This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function.…

— Immanuel Kant

I'm constantly correcting young people and fashion students in this nation when they say "Well, I do couture." By definition, you don't.…

— Tim Gunn

I... [proposed] three distinct grades of education, reaching all classes. 1. Elementary schools for all children generally, rich and poor. 2. Colleges…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is contended by many that ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look upon the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

In a general sense, I think it's bad to bring too much money into climbing, since it takes away a little from…

— Alex Honnold

A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.

— Maaza Mengiste

“General assumptions often lead to erroneous conclusions, but one cannot go far wrong in always assuming that whatever one's government is saying…

— Michel Templet

By refusing to give 16- and 17-year olds the vote, the Conservative Government are risking worsening voter apathy and being on the…

— Layla Moran

You've got to learn to handle the press because god knows the government does all the time.

— Lynne Stewart

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

America's founders knew the importance of allowing the people to speak critically about government actions.

— Mark Meadows

I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system.

— Bill Gates

We are under [government's] control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't…

— Merle Haggard

Universal, equal, direct and secret elections in the U.S.S.R. will be a whip in the hands of the population against poorly functioning…

— Joseph Stalin

I know other astronauts share my feelings… And we know the government is sitting on hard evidence of UFOs.

— Gordon Cooper

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown…

— Grover Norquist

It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.

— Thomas Clarkson

If any athlete is doing well, then it's the responsibility of the government to support the athlete.

— Dutee Chand

you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.

— John Kennedy Toole

ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of…

— Thomas Bulfinch