Government Quote by Jeane Kirkpatrick Download Open image “A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.” — Jeane Kirkpatrick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Government Politics
Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy. — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Government is a true religion: it has its dogmas, its mysteries, its priests. To submit it to the individual discussion is to destroy it;… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn. — Olympia Snowe Copy Share Image
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Government is a parasite-a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others' lives won't give up… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
My quarrel is not with the legitimate role of government but with the unlimited role of government. — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Personally, I think government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Cultural constraints condition and limit our choices, shaping our characters with their imperatives. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic government] took… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. Cross cultural experience teaches… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Louisiana's spicy, colorful politics have saddled our state with a reputation for tolerating lax ethical standards in government. — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry 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. The United… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
