Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
A united Europe is our Continent's only chance to avoid falling off the world's radar. The heads of government of Germany, France… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In reality, if Democrats truly cared about solutions to our immigration crisis they would have done so long ago - like in… — Kayleigh McEnany Copy Share Image
We are going to be a government of no surprises and no excuses; a government which keeps its commitments and a government… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
It was the students who entered kindergarten in 2011 who are - and I am weighing my words carefully - the sacrificed… — Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Copy Share Image
FREEDOM CANNOT BE LICENSED, liberties cannot be regulated and rights cannot be granted. History teaches us that when the rights and liberties… — Steve Kubby Copy Share Image
Here’s a secret intel bulletin for all y’all who’ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the… — Chuck Thompson Copy Share Image
We must remove government's smothering hand from where it does harm; we must seek to revitalize the proper functions of government. We… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Nothing is more deceptive or more dangerous than the pretence of a desire to simplify government. The simplest governments are despotisms; the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
It is an assumption brought forth countless of times in various contexts that the world would be better, drifting slower towards the… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
In Germany, under the law everything is prohibited except that which is permitted. In France, under the law everything is permitted except… — Newton N. Minow Copy Share Image
You will see the constitution of the United States almost destroyed. It will hang like a thread… A terrible revolution will take… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon… — Samuel Chase Copy Share Image
The draconian prohibitions of the Taliban years and the gains Afghan women have achieved since the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Where everyman is participator in the government of affairs, not merely at an election one day in the year but everyday, he… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Nowhere has democracy ever worked well without a great measure of local self-government, providing a school of political training for the people… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
In all the co-temporary discussions and comments, which the Constitution underwent, it was constantly justified and recommended on the ground, that the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
As many of my colleagues know, TikTok, like other Chinese companies is required under Chinese law to share information with the government… — Abigail Spanberger Copy Share Image
The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
“So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of… — Plato Copy Share Image
As long as the government can arbitrarily decide which substances are legal and which are illegal, then those who remain behind bars… — Paul Krassner Copy Share Image
Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically bad but… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
If we wait for the governments, it'll be too little, too late; if we act as individuals, it'll be too little; but… — Rob Hopkins Copy Share Image
Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
I can't possibly put myself in his [Tony Blair's] shoes and be inside his head but what I can say is that… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you… — Taufik Hidayat Copy Share Image
Governments cannot require individuals, they cannot require the public as a body, and they cannot require corporations to make investigation and law… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court's most conservative Justices have presented themselves as great respecters of precedent and opponents of 'judicial activism' - of judges… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
It appears likely that there was no normative pattern of church government in the apostolic age, and that the organizational structure of… — George Eldon Ladd Copy Share Image
Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Programs funded by the Department of Labor have already opened doors for many Americans to become apprentices, particularly veterans, women and minorities.… — Eugene Scalia Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing,… — Meg Greenfield Copy Share Image