The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers. — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I think anyone who serves in public office should have a little bit of contempt for government in their heart. — Carlos Lopez-Cantera Copy Share Image
Here was this vast machinery of government and they didn't know how it ran, where you put in the gas, where you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We cannot ever accept a government that thinks they can get away with tiny targets on climate which they then don't achieve. — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty,… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The government favors the most diplomatic language. That's why any letter to them should always start with, "Dear turkeys and foul maggots..." — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The United Nations is an organizational body where people, through their Governments, come together; and it can be the only place where… — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
I appreciate President Trump's commitment and invitation to play a role in strengthening State and Federal government partnerships. It's important that we… — Mike Parson Copy Share Image
Government policies try to prevent the emergence of serious unemployment by credit expansion, i.e., inflation. The outcome was rising prices, renewed demands… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Iowans are feeling the pinch of a big federal government, and elected officials like Bruce Braley keep championing the over reaching bureaucracy.… — Joni Ernst Copy Share Image
We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man.… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20 percent of the people's income, there begins to be a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I am an anarchist in my personal life. I try to live my life in a way that I don't need cops… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
“For the most part, the evidence shows that individual Americans do not care a great deal about politics and are rather poorly… — Edward S. Greenberg Copy Share Image
The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Here we have the heart of the difference between Hayek and Keynes: one knew that markets work to give us the best… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
The problem isn't that conservatives are wrong about the efficiency of markets or the creativity of enterprise. It's that they have made… — Joe Conason Copy Share Image
If you look for instance at the automobile industry, part of the reason that you have the expansion of that sector, is… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
There is no law that says a campaign cannot accept information from a foreign government. — Jeanine Pirro Copy Share Image
“If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
“When there is no personal responsibility in any society, there cannot be a responsible government.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
We should always measure a government's environmental rhetoric against its environmental record — John Key Copy Share Image
He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder. — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
I mean, look, the government is not a startup obviously. But projects to change government I think are best thought of as… — Todd Park Copy Share Image
Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion. — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain. — Roy Jenkins Copy Share Image
While I don't claim to be an expert, I know this: Americans want a government that serves them, not any elite or… — Francis X. Suarez Copy Share Image
It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the… — Robert Morrison MacIver Copy Share Image
The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Your money has never been safe in the government's hands, and it never will be. Governments spend money; it's just their nature. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image