The European Union should not be prescribing an identity. We know what that's like, when a government tells its people how it… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
Let us give up our longing for welfare, our love of war, and our desire to see the government control and shape… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed,… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
Let's hope the Canadian public sector starts putting the blockchain on their agenda so we can see a significant difference in how… — William Mougayar Copy Share Image
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
“Under the attempt to perform the impossible there sets in a general disintegration. When legislation fails, those who look upon it as… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In a government framed for durable liberty, not less regard must be paid to giving the magistrate a proper degree of authority,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
As proof of this statement, consider this question: Have the people ever been known to rise against the Court of Appeals, or… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“PROPER ROLE OF THE STATE I believe that the proper role of the state is negative, not positive; defensive, not aggressive. It… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias.… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In the space business, space had gotten very much to be the aerospace industry. This is something that governments only do and… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
The theory of the IRS is rather repugnant to me because the assumption is made that I, the government, owns 100% of… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the C.D.A., interrupt that conversation. As… — Stewart Dalzell Copy Share Image
On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda… — Rafik Hariri Copy Share Image
What government supports, government controls. This is an ancient axiom repeatedly ratified by experience. . . . Indeed, as is well known,… — Edd Doerr Copy Share Image
How can this full, perfect, just and supreme voice of the people, embodied in the Constitution, be brought to bear, habitually and… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
That Hillary Clinton can be president of the United States and a Saudi prince can donate $10 or $15 million dollars, let's… — Lee Zeldin Copy Share Image
The passion for the past is clearly about more than market forces or government policies. History responds to a variety of needs,… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
What is the structure of government that will best guard against the precipitate counsels and factious combinations for unjust purposes, without a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If you look at the studies coming out of the Congressional Budget Office, the number one thing that's going to blow a… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
I think that people who believe in limited government would benefit greatly by studying the logic in government itself and the role… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
2011 was a year in which events rarely turned out as predicted, and when much of the world seemed shrouded in turmoil… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
No corner of our society has been left unscathed by the horrors of gun violence. To end it, we'll need to bring… — Kevin de Leon Copy Share Image
What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the… — Harold Washington Copy Share Image
How can you contribute towards building the Indian society and the Indian nation? No better way than to upgrade the quality of… — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with talking out loud in public, but there is something wrong with the government sucking up all those utter… — Clive Thompson Copy Share Image
House Republicans are the most powerful force for limited government, strong national defense, and economic opportunity that exists in America today. But… — Steve Scalise Copy Share Image
I think, at the end of the day, especially for municipal elections, we see relatively low voter turnout. So the goal is… — Michelle Wu Copy Share Image
Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image