Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Powell

A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.

William Powell

Every person, whether in wartime or not, should keep a pistol and rifle in his house at all times. If a person is not going to protect himself, and wishes the government to do it for him, how can he complain when the government decides to protect itself against him, and executes him?

William Ralph Inge

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

William Lloyd Garrison

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

William Lloyd Garrison

What shall be said, then, of those who insist upon ignoring the question of slavery as not involved in this deadly feud, and maintain that the only issue is, the support of the government and the preservation of the Union? Surely, they are "fools and blind"; for it is slaveholders alone who have conspired to seize the one, and overturn the other. As long as the enslavement of a single human being is sanctioned in the land, the curse of God will rest upon it.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Walter Ulbricht

The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.

Walter Wriston

Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency.

Walter Savage Landor

A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.

Vladimir Putin

Every head of state and government in the world is allowed to have his opinion and to voice it.

Vladimir Putin

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

Yochai Benkler

Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.

Yitzhak Rabin

What I, as the prime minister of the present government of Israel, started to do, is first to tackle the longest part of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Yitzhak Rabin

Vis a vis the Golan Heights, the present government of Israel, under my leadership, is the first government that is ready to speak about a withdrawal.

Yitzhak Rabin

It is the duty of the government to guarantee maximum security, and this is not an easy task.

Winston Churchill

Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.

Winston Churchill

The Government of India had imprisoned Mr. Gandhi and they had been sitting outside his cell door begging him to help them out of their difficulties.

Winston Churchill

They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

Winston Churchill

Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.

Steve Womack

Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable.

Vince Flynn

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

Samuel Johnson

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

Samuel Johnson

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.

Samuel Johnson

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

Roy Barnes

I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government

Ronald Reagan

We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the earth. Our government has no power except that granted to it by the people It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed.

Ronald Reagan

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

William Hazlitt

Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.

William E. Simon

The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority government ensues. Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.

Wendell Berry

So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands.

Wendell Berry

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

Wael Ghonim

If you want to liberate a government, give them the Internet.

William O. Douglas

Effective self-government cannot succeed unless the people are immersed in a steady, robust, unimpeded, and uncensored flow of opinion and reporting which are continuously subjected to critique, rebuttal, and reexamination.