Private Citizens Quotes

16 quotes by 14 authors

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government… — Michael Bloomberg
The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties… — Josh Jones
Unlike the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee and run the… — Leonard Peikoff
Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments. — Bob Goodlatte
For those who fancy that government's projects are uniquely important, or for those who imagine that holding government office makes someone unusually saintly or trustworthy,… — Donald J. Boudreaux
Since bad men find the rule of kings no less burdensome than that of tyrants, the recognition of the right of private citizens to kill… — William Archibald Dunning
The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not… — Ayn Rand
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support… — Ayn Rand
It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Aside from sending someone to war or to prison, government s ability to make people involuntarily give over their money is its strongest exercise of… — William Greider
I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public humiliation. A man… — Pericles
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives… — Andrew Johnson
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Who uses funds more productively - private citizens or the government? I dare say that Warren Buffett can use his surplus funds more effectively in… — Mark Skousen
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs. — Elbert Hubbard

Who Wrote These Private Citizens Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 16 Private Citizens Quotes as follows: