All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this,… — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Anyone who wants to see a very free world does not want government. I also don't like being extorted or being aggressed… — Jeff Berwick Copy Share Image
I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in… — Yochai Benkler Copy Share Image
To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem. — Honore Gabriel Riquet Copy Share Image
At the heart of liberalism really is a hatred for God and a belief that government should replace God. — Todd Akin Copy Share Image
Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government. — Edwin Meese Copy Share Image
Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all… — Frank Press Copy Share Image
We need a Peace Department in our national government to do extensive research on peaceful ways of resolving conflicts. Then we can… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over.… — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
Environmentalists, members of the Obama administration and government officials in several states see significant potential for offshore wind energy, given that winds… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
Governments mostly don't do much. And you've also got to understand the level of incompetence out there. Nobody knows what they're doing.… — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
Any deeper involvement, including the use of airstrikes against Islamic State positions, will require parliamentary approval. The government anyway needs to get… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
Why is it so hard to see that when America had high savings, low taxes and minimal government, the economy grew like… — James Cook Copy Share Image
What we can do in Singapore may not be doable elsewhere. Some things you know you need: you want efficient government, you… — Lee Hsien Loong Copy Share Image
Under the current U.S. policy, because of this power struggle, American oil companies can't do business with Iran. So I think the… — Michael Klare Copy Share Image
After Jessica Mitford published 'The American Way of Death' in 1963, to expose the abuses in the funeral industry, a groundswell of… — Perianne Boring Copy Share Image
I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have… — Charles Trevelyan Copy Share Image
“This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
There were over 40,000 pages of FBI documents of which only about half are currently available to scholars and researchers. I think… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
The government taxes you when you bring home a paycheck. It taxes you when you make a phone call. It taxes you… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
What's wrong is that we are not participating to make this the type of government it needs to be. — Mike Lowry Copy Share Image
Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
If the government and judiciary start working together then who will raise people's issues? — Raj Thackeray Copy Share Image
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
In Washington, a confidential assistant is someone who, if you don't want to know something, you go and ask him and he… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
There is nothing more important for a government than getting its budget through. — Annastacia Palaszczuk Copy Share Image
Socialism means government dependency, rationed resources, and exorbitant taxation. It means the destruction of every incentive to achieve. — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Do you work for the government, any government?” "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time.… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
“If freedom isn't free and people's rights are being violated and suppressed, then Governments have NO need to exist.” — ELW-Reta Barnes Copy Share Image
The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and… — Julie Bishop Copy Share Image