Government Quotes · Page 140

If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.

— Harry Browne

A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

— Abraham Lincoln

The most ironic thing is that The Pirate Bay's enemies include not just the U.S. government but also many European and the…

— Peter Sunde

[T]he burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends.

— Milton Friedman

Our government might not receive our identities or our differences as acceptable, but what sells, sells. And seeing people be themselves will…

— Alex Consani

We don't want the federal government coming in and telling us how to do our environmental remediation or how we're going to…

— John Hickenlooper

Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly.

— Ronald Reagan

One thing is inevitable: if government continues to fall down the people will rise up.

— Anonymous

With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system…

— Adam Rickitt

The level of concern and anxiety among scientists - and I guess I'd say the science-friendly public - about the place of…

— Rush D. Holt, Jr

It sometimes seems easier to trace the great general laws of God's government in the passage of events far from us than…

— Edward Everett Hale

I started a festival of short films produced for television, and as the secretary of the organisation that ran it I used…

— Roopa Ganguly

My personal view is that nobody should stand between an employer and employee when it comes to employment contract negations. Not the…

— Mark Noble

I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government…

— Jeffrey Archer

Motherland is our property and we have right to handle our properties as pleased. The jokes about death for the sake of…

— Ilkin Santak

If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic visions of…

— David Rockefeller

Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security…

— James Madison

It is not certain that with this aid alone [possession of arms], they would not be able to shake off their yokes.…

— James Madison

What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under…

— Oliver North

Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's…

— Roger Moore

“Moralistic culture views government as a positive force, one that values the individual but functions to the benefit of the general public.…

— William Earl Maxwell

I have a great respect for the flag, (but) if the government passed a law saying that I had to pledge allegiance…

— Jimmy Carter

If this government can send 20 billion dollars to Latin America to some peasants who have never fought for this country or…

— Malcolm X

The field of U.S. cancer care is organized around a medical monopoly that ensures a continuous flow of money to the pharmaceutical…

— John Diamond

You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.

— Lemn Sissay

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against…

— Thomas Jefferson

If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in.

— Ronald Reagan

[Me attacked by media] is nothing more than an attempt to destroy our movement and for the Clintons to keep their corrupt…

— Donald Trump

Government must start to look at mobile infrastructure as a critical national resource and not just a resource for tax dollars.

— Borje Ekholm

I like shooting movies in Thailand very much because the government is so cooperative there. The police help you to close the…

— Alan Mak

This website is the dream of people who want to change the culture of state government.

— Steve Rauschenberger

I have proudly spent several periods in government, but I'm not a career politician. I come from a family of 'citizen soldiers.'

— Jim Webb

As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.

— John le Carre

Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

— Barton Gellman

The American people just want the opportunity to create a better life for their families and keep the government out of their…

— John E. James

Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.

— Thomas Jefferson

What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.

— Marc Faber

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple…

— Anonymous

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another,…

— Henry David Thoreau