Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

Eben Moglen

There is a First Amendment right to speak in a encrypted way.... The right to speak P.G.P. is like the right to speak Navajo. The Government has no particular right to prevent you from speaking in a technical manner even if it is inconvenient for them to understand.

We have an excellent list of speakers, but the spark will be provided by the crowd to turn talk into action. The Iraq occupation and the government's bumbling effort in New Orleans, has people wanting to act.

Elizabeth May

It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in.

Edwin Meese

Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.

Edwin Meese

A Supreme Court decision does not establish a "supreme law of the land" that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore.

Edward Kennedy

The demand of our people in 1980 is not for smaller government or bigger government but for better government.

Bobby Jindal

The Obama presidency, and liberalism in general, are based on not trusting the American people - a belief that big government is better for people.

Benjamin Franklin

In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.

Benjamin Franklin

Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will not in my Opinion be able to preserve our Language, and even our Government will become precarious.

Benjamin Franklin

In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns.

Benjamin Franklin

It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

Benjamin Franklin

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

Benjamin Franklin

This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.

Benjamin Franklin

Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.

Benjamin Franklin

Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves and essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse.

Ben Bernanke

Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective.

Barbara Tuchman

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Barbara Tuchman

Confronted by menace, or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, define it.

Barbara Tuchman

A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.

Barbara Tuchman

Policy is formed by preconceptions, by long implanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is already inside their heads and consequently make policy less to fit the facts than to fit the notions and intentions formed out of the mental baggage that has accumulated in their minds since childhood.

Arthur Goldberg

If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

Bob Hope

I need money. I have a staff of 30, and four houses, never mind the government, to support.

Bob Hope

I don't know what people have against government; they haven't done anything.

Bob Hope

I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don't they just print our money with a return address on it?

Bob Hope

I can't understand what's holding up our missile program. It's the first time the government ever had trouble making the taxpayers' money go up in smoke.

Bill Gross

With all this consumer debt, business debt, government debt, smaller movements in interest rates have a magnified effect. a small movement can tip the boat.

Bill Frist

The American people expect and deserve a government that works and leaders who work together.

Benjamin Tucker

Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.

Benjamin Tucker

Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility of an end of that social organization which will arise, not out of the ruins of government, but out of the transformation of government into voluntary association for defence.

Benjamin Tucker

The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business.

Benjamin Tucker

An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.

Benjamin Tucker

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.