Government Quotes · Page 286

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

— H. L. Mencken

When you have the demand, you can change the government policies that create McDonald's and junk food.

— Kimbal Musk

If debtors can reasonably expect that the government will swoop in from time to time to bail them out, no one has…

— Michael J. Knowles

I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.

— Dalai Lama

All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service,

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck." [ On Water ]”

— Guy de Maupassant

You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.

— Lynne Stewart

I dream of a Digital India where Government services are easily and efficiently available to citizens on Mobile devices.

— Narendra Modi

I am frightened by today's world, terrified by it. I think that comes out in the books. I'm afraid of big things.…

— Robert Cormier

Prime Minister Maliki, released from American restraint, acted on his worst instincts, creating enormous distrust in Iraq's Kurdish population and deeply embittering…

— Jim Mattis

The costs of government are bound to be much higher than those of the free market. . .The State cannot calculate well…

— Murray Rothbard

In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming…

— Leo Tolstoy

Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the…

— Theodore T. Munger

The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the…

— John Hume

Freedom and Liberty cannot exist without Individual Responsibilty. Failure to exercise Individual Responsibilty forfeits your right to self-governance and delivers it to…

— Brian Wilson

There are two major problems that come out of COVID-19: the massive unemployment that is destroying the revenues for our programs, the…

— Pierre Poilievre

There are two things. There was the moral responsibility, and that, first, is creating an atmosphere where the security forces can kill…

— Fatima Bhutto

The physical lot of surviving workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's…

— Lewis Mumford

“Did not Socrates, all the while he unflinchingly refused to concede one iota of loyalty to his daemon, obey with equal fidelity…

— Inazo Nitobe

It has always been a source of serious reflection and sincere regret with me that the youth of the United States should…

— George Washington

It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as…

— Alexander Fraser Tytler

The American experiment is not a theocracy and does not establish an official religion, but the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution…

— William H. Pryor, Jr

“Under the attempt to perform the impossible there sets in a general disintegration. When legislation fails, those who look upon it as…

— Calvin Coolidge

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to…

— Thomas Jefferson

In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black…

— Emanuel Celler

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

— Theodore Parker

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.

— Lillian Hellman

Montanans elected me to the Senate to do away with shady backroom deals and to make government work better.

— Jon Tester

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against…

— Ayn Rand

We (the ANC government) have no plans to introduce the wholesale administration of these drugs in the public sector. ARVs are not…

— Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

We fought against British not because of the color of their skin but also because of the exploitative character of their government.

— Arvind Kejriwal

As the old saying goes, 'money is power' and the more money the government takes, the more power it has over individuals.

— Angela McGlowan

The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we…

— Bob Hope

“The energy industry is filled with toxic people that are following a corporate government subsidized known biologically toxic agenda.”

— Steven Magee

It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments.

— Margaret Thatcher

The protection the government owes you and fails to provide, you are morally bound to provide for yourselves.

— Eugene V. Debs

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

— Thomas Jefferson

The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

— Dora Russell

The shape and composition of the government is important. We haven't reached a point where politics and economics have been totally divorced…

— Kumar Mangalam Birla