Government Quotes · Page 258

If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and…

— Anonymous

As the economy and peoples' habits change, we need to demonstrate that Connecticut's state government can keep pace.

— Ned Lamont

From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

— Tony Campolo

I can imagine [the government] trying to tell Steven Spielberg 'We need 50 different cuts of your movie for each state.' It…

— John Riccitiello

We can't depend on consumers to spend money they don't have on stuff they don't need, so the government has to do…

— Jacob Sullum

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

— Adam Weishaupt

I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime.

— Dennis Kozlowski

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

— Jeremy Bentham

Chinese citizens have never had the right to really express their opinions; in the constitution it says you can, but in the…

— Ai Weiwei

That is why I came to conclusion that the election must take place, so that the republic can have a government. If…

— Akhmad Kadyrov

Without question, the true goal of some in Congress is to create a system of socialized medicine. It's politically expedient to slap…

— Ron Paul

John Prescott has made the government look greedy and ridiculous. Labour is seen as the corrupt party. The government has been fulfilling…

— William Rees-Mogg

All too frequently, the knee jerk reaction to tragedies by the media and chattering class is to move to restrict our rights...…

— Dave Brat

I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it's…

— Michael Porter

If you work a job outside of the hours a daycare that accepts government grants operates, if you are self-employed or you…

— Stephanie Land

Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not…

— George Washington

First there is the democratic idea: that all men are endowed by their creator with certain natural rights; that these rights are…

— Theodore Parker

While the Western society gives total freedom to the individuals to do whatever "consenting adults" please, which admittedly is better than having…

— Ali Sina

Governments are based pincipally on force and deception. Democratic governments are based chiefly on deception, other governments on force. And democratic governments,…

— Robert Anton Wilson

“Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in…

— James Madison

Unable to maintain their government-granted monopoly, the powerful railroad interests turned to government to do the regulating and price-fixing which they were…

— Dan Smoot

I will never not know where I came from. I can be in the biggest house, the best apartment, winning Tonys and…

— Steve Kazee

In the whole history of capitalism, no one has been able to establish a coercive monopoly by means of competition in a…

— Nathaniel Branden

If liberty is worth keeping and free representative government worth saving, we must stand for all American fundamentals-not some, but all. All…

— Albert J. Beveridge

There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.

— Os Guinness

In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the disease incident to republican government.

— James Madison

The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.

— Sheldon Richman

One of the things that the public sector banks need to do is to raise private capital from the market and not…

— Urjit Patel

Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.

— Gavin Newsom

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to…

— George Bernard Shaw

Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past.

— Gordon Brown

“What do you call 1,000 government employees with no mouths or legs? More efficient.”

— Jarod Kintz

Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent…

— Lysander Spooner

I think the U.S. is falling behind. There's massive government initiatives going around the world and you see that there's a real…

— Anne Wojcicki

I believe one of the main roles of Government is to keep our economy free and fair.

— Liz Truss

“I suppose if you have ten children one of them might go into government, which is the same as losing a child…

— Catherynne M. Valente

All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.

— James Cook

Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they…

— Hugo Black

The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and…

— Adolf Hitler

“Corporate governments have set the biological environmental exposure limits far too high regarding all forms of radiation exposures.”

— Steven Magee