Government Quotes · Page 103

The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.

— Will Rogers

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

— Ronald Reagan

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

— Ronald Reagan

Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy.

— James Madison

Netanyahu is no king, his government sows division and incitement.

— Benny Gantz

Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.

— Robert Higgs

Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.

— Phil Gramm

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

— Ronald Reagan

The people of America need personal responsibility and freedom, not dependency on the government.

— George Allen

The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.

— Irwin Redlener

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no…

— Anonymous

Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all…

— Martha Gellhorn

Bottom line: government shouldn't be a bottleneck for entrepreneurs looking to design a better mousetrap.

— Ajit Pai

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.

— Ferdinand Marcos

The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be…

— Will Rogers

The government of Rwanda, which is a US client, is intervening massively, and Uganda to an extent. It's almost an international war…

— Noam Chomsky

A constitution, therefore, is to a government what the laws made afterwards by that government are to a court of judicature. The…

— Thomas Paine

People are absolutely free to criticize the government and protest, but their protests should be in such a way as to improve…

— Hassan Rouhani

I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If…

— Andy Rooney

Merging the ability to conduct surveillance that reveals every aspect of a person's life with the ability to conjure up the legal…

— Ron Wyden

If the Russian government continues to pump money into it and makes their national teams train in Sochi and just sort of…

— Gary Hustwit

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued…

— James Madison

With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

It is federal, because it is the government of States united in a political union, in contradistinction to a government of individuals,…

— John C. Calhoun

“Mankind were intended to be happy... that government being only the means of securing freedom and happiness to the people, whenever it…

— James Iredell

And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder…

— Lysander Spooner

[Action's] a Western thing. We think of the hero going into battle, rebelling against a government or an oppressor, but [in KUNDUN]…

— Martin Scorsese

The idea that the State is capable of solving social problems is now viewed with great scepticism – which foretells a coming…

— Stefan Molyneux

What we argue in the piece is that the headscarf has become a political symbol for an ideology of Islam that is…

— Asra Nomani

The people cannot look to legislation generally for success. Industry, thrift, character, are not conferred by act or resolve. Government cannot relieve…

— Calvin Coolidge

There is no patriarchy or matriarchy in the garden; the two supervise each other. Adam is given no arbitrary power; Eve is…

— Hugh Nibley

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

— Harold MacMillan

“Once more, we will have a government of, by and for the people.”

— David Horowitz

ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.

— Thomas Jefferson

[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

— George Washington

We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything.

— Bill Mollison

I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more.

— Antonio Banderas

Let's shrink the federal government and return power to the states.

— Doug Burgum

We actually do need a federal government, but we need a limited one.

— Ron Johnson