It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
A no deal Brexit would be a complete failure by the government to negotiate for Britain. — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
There is no need for neighborhood informants and paper dossiers if the government can see citizens' every Web site visit, e-mail and… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
I'm not in the most comfortable position, but I think my government is very stable, perhaps more stable than any government in… — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
It's widely accepted that it is reasonable for a government to use tax policy to change behaviour. — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
It is easier to drive a stake through the heart of a blood-sucking vampire than to kill off a money-sucking and useless… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. He's always… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“I had no idea the day I watched President Obama at the dangerous Desoto Solar Farm that I was going to become… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am… — Ami Bera Copy Share Image
If you win elections on the theory that government is always bad and will mess up a two-car parade... a real change-maker… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
If you are a reporter trying to find out what the hell's going on in government now, you have a devilish time.… — Ted Gup Copy Share Image
Of all the wonderful things government says, that's always been just about my favorite. As opposed to if you get to keep… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Failing to induce adulation and submissiveness, the Angkar could only generate hatred. If concealment was the ultimate ploy for the leadership, it… — Pol Pot Copy Share Image
f the government is going to put money into the automobile sector, it should break up GM and Chrysler as a condition… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem. ... Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. Government's… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The shutdown itself is bad but not devastating. The real danger will come up in a couple of weeks. There's legislation which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“But who would build the roads if there were no government? You mean to tell me that 300 million people in this… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Closed Circuit' came out of a general anxiety about surveillance. Government surveillance and private surveillance. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous... — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill. — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old… — Klemens von Metternich Copy Share Image
I don't think that any government has a right to subvert the truth or to cover up the truth, and all I… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders. — Pat Toomey Copy Share Image
The government wants to be able to attack extremism and hatred wherever it occurs. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything. — Taki Theodoracopulos Copy Share Image
