Government Quotes · Page 211

Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone.

— Harry Browne

Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.

— Josiah Strong

When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.

— Thomas Clarkson

Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the…

— William Shakespeare

“Our offices are filled with people working their lives out to enrich their boss, government or company.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Fine Gael needs to be Fine Gael and needs to stand its ground. It should not sacrifice its politics for position in…

— Leo Varadkar

If we're free to do what we want, why does government always have a plan for us?

— P. J. O'Rourke

One consequence of Russia's klepto-capitalist model is the growing appeal of government jobs, with their lucrative opportunities for payoffs.

— Chrystia Freeland

One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk.…

— Ron Fournier

I don't think any government is going to go back on the reforms process. There is no government that won't attempt to…

— Kumar Mangalam Birla

The most important funder of the British Brexit campaign had odd Russian contacts. So did some cabinet ministers in Poland's supposedly anti-Russian,…

— Anne Applebaum

The government is promoting bad behavior... do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages... This is America! How many of you…

— Rick Santelli

“He’s a lovely guy, but there’s no spark between us whatsoever. It just goes to show, that even with all their fancy…

— Siobhan Davis

When you turn 18 in the United States, you should be automatically registered to vote. Ideally, this sensible reform would be a…

— Shaun King

I saw my father deal with every headache the government threw his way - whether it had to do with the signs…

— Ann Wagner

We declared jihad against the U.S. government because the U.S. government is unjust, criminal and tyrannical. It has committed acts that are…

— Osama bin Laden

And they can appreciate, through personal experience, that the really decisive battleground of American freedom is in the hearts and minds of…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war…

— Richard M. Nixon

I am delighted to be involved in the digital divide campaign to ensure that every school is made aware of what steps…

— Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

Fascist intellectuals, such as Ugo Spirito, made the round of conferences preaching the virtues of postcapitalism fascism and in fact tried to…

— Charles S. Maier

If a dog is biting a black man, the black man should kill the dog, whether the dog is a police dog…

— Malcolm X

No man ever saw the people of whom he forms a part. No man ever saw a government. I live in the…

— Woodrow Wilson

BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. That which distinguishes the man who is content to be something…

— Ambrose Bierce

I think Katrina is one more indication of how inefficient and corrupt this Administration is, and indicates the absolute lack of seriousness…

— Bernie Sanders

Locke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property.

— Russell Kirk

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

— Bill Gates

We now live in a secular humanist theocracy. I want to change that to a government with God at its head.

— Gary DeMar

Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago.

— Roscoe Pound

The history of government management of money has, except for a few short happy periods, been one of incessant fraud and deception.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.

— Herbert Hoover

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

— Oscar Wilde

Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government.

— Mitt Romney

71 percent of the American people think that the federal government should take no more than 20 percent of anybody's paycheck no…

— Karl Rove

It's not government that makes business successful. It's not government investments that makes businesses grow and hire people.

— Mitt Romney

The government can become so elitist and concentrate on elitist interests. To help the government, you must constantly hold its attention.

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

Over the year,s the government launched more than one 'war on corruption,' and they all failed. Why? Because they all started from…

— Mohammad bin Salman

I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Nadine Gordimer came over just before she died. She didn't want to talk about books or the arts, but about the abuse…

— Justin Cartwright

Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns.

— Benjamin Franklin