Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Edward Merriam

It is denied that any limit can be set to governmental activity.

Chester A. Arthur

No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully installed without shock or strain.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

Charles Handy

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.

Charles Horton Cooley

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

Bob Latta

Socialism is when government's taking care of you, you send all your money to the government, the government decides how to spend it instead of letting the people spend it and make all those decisions.

Henry Hazlitt

There are millions receiving government payments who have come to consider them as an earned right, who of course find them inadequate, and who are outraged at the slightest suggestion of a critical re-examination of the subject. The political pressure for constant extension and increase of these benefits is almost irresistible.

What this is all about is government willing to not protect the health and welfare of their own citizens.

Camille Paglia

For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power.

Cal Thomas

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.

Cal Thomas

Does the U.S. Constitution stand for anything in an era of government excess? Can that founding document, which is supposed to restrain the power and reach of a centralized federal government, slow down the juggernaut of czars, health insurance overhaul and anything else this administration and Congress wish to do that is not in the Constitution?

C. Northcote Parkinson

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

Calvin Coolidge

Governments are necessarily continuing concerns. They have to keep going in good times and in bad. They therefore need a wide margin of safety. If taxes and debt are made all the people can bear when times are good, there will be certain disaster when times are bad.

Dennis Miller

The government could take away all the drugs in the world and people would spin around on their lawns until they fell down and saw God.

Edward Snowden

There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.

Edward Snowden

In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned, or powerless. No, the Obama administration is afraid of you. It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

Edward Snowden

It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

Edward Felten

The question is not whether we want to keep this open, neutral Internet - we do, or should - but whether government rulemaking can give us the result we want.

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.

Edward Kennedy

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Bob Schieffer

Talk about threats to national security -- how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way?

Charles Koch

Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers. This growing partnership between business and government is a destructive force, undermining not just our economy and our political system, but the very foundations of culture.

Charles Koch

To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.

Charles Koch

We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.