The basis of any independent government is a national…

Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal of democracy…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people.

— William McKinley

The principle that a central bank, charged with controlling inflation, should be independent from the government is unassailable. It may also be true that…

— Janet Yellen

That the people have a right to uniform government; and, therefore, that no government separate from, or independent of the government of Virginia, ought…

— George Mason

The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says…

— Erica Jong

One of the most important political and economic facts of this young century is that capital has been slipping the traces of the nation-state.…

— Chrystia Freeland

They took care to represent government as a thing made up of mysteries, which only themselves understood, and they hid from the understanding of…

— Thomas Paine

Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite…

— Stephen Harper

With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality.

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

My government, a government of national unity, will make all necessary structural reforms.

— Nicos Anastasiades

Whether Canada ends up as o­ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite…

— Stephen Harper

A national government has to have national priorities.

— Amber Rudd

A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact…

— Edward Sapir

“We’ve driven wedges between parents and children, between liberals and conservatives, between whites and ethnic groups, and between the religious and non religious. We’ve…

— Robert Goddard