In Wisconsin, we understand people create jobs, not the government. Those who choose to employ - be it one or many -… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
For an American to be patriotic is to be loyal to the principles of our Constitution, and the First Amendment. The truth… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are not safe and secure when the government uses us as pawns to perpetrate violence against others. Our safety and security… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The fight against HIV/AIDS requires leadership from all parts of government - and it needs to go right to the top. AIDS… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I worry about civil-rights activists being targeted as black-identity extremists. I worry about the government saying, 'I don't like this progressive blogger'… — Kevin de Leon Copy Share Image
ISIS is not Islam. No, I'm not saying that. The government says that. The left, the media says it. ISIS is not… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it. The King of Ghargaroo, who had… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Freedom is messy. In free societies, people will fall through the cracks - drink too much, eat too much, buy unaffordable homes,… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Yet we need our elected representatives to remain connected to our everyday rhythms - of waking in the pale dawn to gently… — Fleur Anderson Copy Share Image
The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not… — Edmund Morgan Copy Share Image
Civil society rests on moral relationships. They are covenantal rather than contractual. They are brought about not by governments but by us… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
I think the public still isn't aware of the frequency with which the cyber-attacks, as they're being called in the press, are… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how… — Russ Carnahan Copy Share Image
There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I'm really not a politician: I don't have a political background, though I've been an activist fighting for my community for years.… — Paula Jean Swearengin Copy Share Image
If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The federal government is far larger than the Founding Fathers ever intended it to be. We have racked up over $16 trillion… — Matt Salmon Copy Share Image
We've got to move beyond the idea that the public and private sectors are at odds. Government has to lay the groundwork… — Sebastian Pinera Copy Share Image
History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
If public servants are freely allowed to take up lucrative post retirement jobs with companies to whom they have awarded contracts while… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Government acquisition of food supplies in time of war is no less important than conscription. Equity is the fundamental principle applicable to… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
One of the problems with Marco's [Rubio] foreign policy is he has far too often supported Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama undermining… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
If the NDA doesn't get a majority, that will not upset the market so much... but a situation where the BJP and… — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Copy Share Image
The sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice, and I firmly believe that a government that forbids killing… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
Fascism is actually the work of the synergistic effort of big government and big corporations working together to stifle the people. And… — Aaron Russo Copy Share Image
Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
If it's not accepted that big government, fiat money, ignoring liberty, central economic planning, welfarism, and warfarism caused our crisis, we can… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen - even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Cinema halls must be preserved by us and by the government. That business is in trouble today with monumental maintenance costs of… — Anubhav Sinha Copy Share Image
We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the… — John Hume Copy Share Image