Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig von Mises

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

Ludwig von Mises

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

Ludwig von Mises

There is, in fact, only one solution: the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling or education. Public funds must not be used for such purposes. The rearing and instruction of youth must be left entirely to parents and to private associations and institutions

Ludwig von Mises

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.

Henrique Capriles Radonski

They say that if I win that I'll take away benefits, but the only one who has expropriated things from you is this government. After visiting all around our Venezuela, I don't have a doubt that we will win.

We get no government money; we rely on volunteer donation.

Grover Norquist

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.

Grover Norquist

Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government.

Grover Norquist

We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy.

Grover Norquist

There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government.

Grover Norquist

Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more people are able to take care of themselves.

Grover Norquist

We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.

Marsha Blackburn

There's an inverse relationship between the size and scope of government and the health of our free-market economy.

Chris Evans

You are effectively presiding over the end of government accountability in the Senate.

Jaswant Singh

We will revert shortly to the government of Pakistan with alternative dates,

We have been waiting for you so that we could turn over the government.

Virtually every part of state government has had to find efficiencies.

We're really pleased that the governor has shown, at least in our first negotiating sessions on this, that she seems to mean business.

Muhammad Yunus

Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity. Poor people get hand outs from the state. But this is not a solution to poverty.

Roy Moore

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

Paul Kurtz

The government doesn't have to solve everyone's problem here.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support.

Peter MacKay

I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa.

Philip Massinger

He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.

David Souter

I would like to think that enough examples of non-compromise are going to start people thinking that there must be a better way to try to govern the country.

Donna Brazile

People don't trust government, they don't trust Wall Street, they don't trust the church, they don't trust the media.

Noam Chomsky

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.

Mike Miller

Without help from our government we'd be out of business.

Newt Gingrich

We owe the American people the right to know what happened. They have the right to know whether or not the American government was undermined by the Chinese.

Danica Patrick

I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.

Condoleezza Rice

I am proud of the decision of this Administration to overthrow Saddam Hussein. I am proud of the liberation of 25 million Iraqis. And I'm proud to see an Iraq that is now emerging with a stronger government, a truly multiethnic, multi-sectarian government that's about to have its second set of elections, that's inviting private investment into Iraq, and that is making peace with its Arab neighbors.

Cofer Black

The United States government does not negotiate with terrorists.

Penn Jillette

People still seem to think that they should vote themselves money. They seem to think there is stuff which they think is the government's job, when it's really the individual's job.