ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. — George Washington Copy Share Image
We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream. — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done. — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country. — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I would hate for anybody not to abide by alert warnings coming from government systems. — Kirstjen Nielsen Copy Share Image
I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government,… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“Government workers are commonly as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
We take men for what they are worth - and that is why we hate the government of man by man, and… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
The federal government of Nigeria has always preferred to talk to bona fide Boko Haram leaders about the release of the Chibok… — Muhammadu Buhari Copy Share Image
I think that the government of [Nicolas] Maduro has argued to stage a coup in Venezuela, that this is obviously a coup… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The Government may not, through the [Communications Decency Act], interrupt that… — Stewart Dalzell Copy Share Image
Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
“Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness. Society promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, government negatively… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
My position is that I am personally opposed to abortion, but I don't think I have a right to impose my view… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
I grew up with a single mom who was a waitress. We were on food stamps. My mom then got Pell Grants,… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
I write about how in Midland, the mayor instituted water conservation measures like restrictions on car washing. He made a point though… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I have shown in all the foregoing parts of this work that the Bible and Testament are impositions and forgeries; and I… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. — Chester Bowles Copy Share Image
“Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty.” — JSB Morse Copy Share Image
“A country of free men is not free if they are owned by somebody else.” — Joseph P. Sekula Copy Share Image
The Scottish Government will continue to do all it can to get people into work. — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image