Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Philanthropic funding can play a vital role in testing and stimulating innovation that, when proven, can be implemented at scale by business… — Sergio Ermotti Copy Share Image
It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The government shouldn't be in the business of subsidizing a business by allowing people to be paid starvation wages. — John Fetterman Copy Share Image
“There's a whole generation growing up thinking...the government exists to care for them.” — Dave Ramsey Rachel Cruze Copy Share Image
Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics — John Adams Copy Share Image
Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
A republican government is in a hundred points weaker than one that is autocratic; but in this one point it is the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
People with an investment in government power will torture logic like a medieval inquisitor rather than face the facts. ... There's a… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
As a mother trying to raise kids with some kind of a code, an honorable way to solve problems without using violence,… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
Jobs in the public sector are increasingly dependent on technology, and more and more government services are available online in developed and… — Tae Yoo Copy Share Image
I do strongly believe myself that members of the government who sit in the House of Lords should be accountable to the… — John Bercow Copy Share Image
If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have,… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
After a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina, the federal government has a profound obligation to help those in need, .. Right now,… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
The right way is the greatest gratifier of human wishes ever come upon - when allowed to operate. It is as morally… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Going through intense change with an ignorant and apathetic citizenry, driven by a corporate agenda, is a really, really scary proposition. But… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
As the United States continues its slow but steady recovery from the depths of the financial crisis, nobody actually wants a massive… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
U.S. failures when it comes to the Gulf of Guinea are many: a failure to address the longstanding concerns of a government… — Nick Turse Copy Share Image
Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Time and time again, small businesses testify before the Committee on Small Business that they simply want the government to 'get out… — Sam Graves Copy Share Image
You get married and have kids, and you get sick of having the government take your money and tell you what to… — Jim Jordan Copy Share Image
For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general. — Lara St. John Copy Share Image
Our government has made infrastructure upgrade and the creation of smart cities major national priorities. — Sushma Swaraj Copy Share Image
When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government. — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenryThis is for usThis is for us when our… — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it? — Richard M. Daley Copy Share Image
We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish. — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Trust me, I've been to countries where there's no government. And our government's pretty damned good. — Amy McGrath Copy Share Image
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline. — Mark Kirk Copy Share Image
“The misfortune of the world is that people who are too incompetent to be managers even in an apartment block come to… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states. — Allen West Copy Share Image
