If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Many governments are giving subsidies to fossil fuel production and consumption that encourage greenhouse gas emissions, at the same time as they… — Jose Angel Gurria Copy Share Image
The corruption will come back to haunt the Trump administration. But mostly, it'll come back to haunt the American economy, as companies… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The average ordinary person, in the worst slums of America, someone who might even hate the law and disagree with the government,… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it… There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To me, as I see it, reparations would be something that is fairly specific to the descendants of slaves, and it would… — Julian Castro Copy Share Image
Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It's estimated that about 30 percent of the increase in grain prices could be attributed to the decision to embrace biofuels, particularly… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
But new details drawn from government documents and interviews show that senior White House aides were given information at the time suggesting… — Carol D. Leonnig Copy Share Image
There's only one thing that all of the central banks control and that is the base, their own liability, and they can… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
In Burma, we are being told by so-called experts and some governments that we must be patient and that there can be… — Zoya Phan Copy Share Image
In Europe, we don't only take offence when one company is treating another company in a way that's illegal. We also look… — Margrethe Vestager Copy Share Image
In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The retirement age of 65 was chosen because most people were dead at that age a hundred years ago! It was a… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Torture anywhere is an affront to human dignity everywhere... I call on all governments to join with the United States and the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The economy is terrible it's been terrible for years now, and the reason it's bad is not because of a debt-ceiling vote.… — Todd Rokita Copy Share Image
In our egalitarian democracy we have just about empowered a branch of the government, the FHA, to specify the size and shape… — Peter Blake Copy Share Image
I will continue to advocate for a strong federal government role to establish the production, storage and distribution networks needed to support… — Albert Wynn Copy Share Image
Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without… — Ian Bremmer Copy Share Image
Government [is] operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
When I was fifteen, I used to run around reading 'Adbusters' and dumpster diving, trying to find ways to make the U.S.… — Diplo Copy Share Image
The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and ... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull… — Gary Coleman Copy Share Image
I'd love to thwart the Census form, but I want a constitutional basis for doing it - and here's the tricky thing.… — Mark Davis Copy Share Image
In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention… — Michael McCaul Copy Share Image
Officials of governments that use or produce landmines should be forced to see the reality of how landmines hurt people and make… — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
American government is not dominated by engineers, it is dominated by lawyers. Engineers are interested in substance and building things; lawyers are… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
It's the libertarians who want to reclaim decision-making for themselves. It's the small government folks who see government as a great Leviathan… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
The Europeans governments have massively changed the landscape in Europe. There is no doubt about it. They have put together the European… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
I think there's something unfortunate about the attention that performers get in our media, but the weight of government propaganda is so… — David Clennon Copy Share Image
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