The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The interventionist policy (big government) provides thousands and thousands of people with safe, placid, and not too strenuous jobs at the expense… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why… — Malcolm Wallop Copy Share Image
The most fearful phenomenon of these midcentury years is not the atom bomb; atomic energy does have its constructive possibilities… The most… — Wheeler McMillen Copy Share Image
In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. Every man will speak as he thinks, or,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
While everyone is entitled to a little vacation now and then, America's top legal officers should adhere to basic measures to increase… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created… — Robin Hayes Copy Share Image
“Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
But above all, what this Congress can be remembered for is opening the way to a new American revolutiona peaceful revolution in… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I know nothing, by experience, of party discipline. I would rather be a raccoon-dog, and belong to a Negro in the forest,… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
The political system of the United States is essentially extra-European. To stand in firm and cautious independence of all entanglement in the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The institutions that we've built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don't apply to the… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately,… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
When's the last time CNN broke an important story or really made the government angry? I literally can't remember. That's because they're… — Cenk Uygur Copy Share Image
To avoid manufactured misunderstandings, the policies of Israeli governments are not analogous to Nazism. They do not aim at the systematic extermination… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
It is in the interest of the government and also the interest of the nation that things are done properly and that… — Yemi Osinbajo Copy Share Image
In 19th-century France, artists were part of government. Artists are very sensitive to their time. They're very thoughtful people - it makes… — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
Ironically, in the full-fledged transfer society, where governments busy themselves redistributing income by means of hundreds of distinct programs, hardly anyone is… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common… — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
We will shortly become like Germany, France, the United Kingdom, or Sweden - a socialist democracy in which the government dominates the… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Under the rule of law, if the government wants to prevent firms from outsourcing and offshoring, it enacts legislation and adopts regulations… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I am the candidate of tax cuts, repealing Obamacare, repealing Dodd-Frank, letting the markets work, coming up with patient-and-doctor-centered healthcare solutions instead… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each and every one of us has a vital part to play in building the kind of world in which government and… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Far too many government spending programs have gone years, even decades, without being reauthorized, leaving the American people less able to effectively… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen . . . . It moreover equally enables the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
As mayor of Jerusalem, I wanted the government to invest the necessary funds in order to unite the city in an effective… — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
Democracy was always a gamble. In 1776, the founders rejected the old idea that government should be based on hierarchies according to… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Name any issue in the world, I can tell you how technology is intertwined with it. I can tell you how technology… — Jared Cohen Copy Share Image
There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government,… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
business itself is now the most powerful force for change in the world today, richer and faster by far than most governments.… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about… — Chance the Rapper Copy Share Image
My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are… — George Weah Copy Share Image
What makes [cyber security] difficult is because it's not just a government problem. It is a private sector and government problem. And… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Within my own lifetime, I have seen the most ferocious assaults on Christian faith and morals; first on the part of the… — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image