Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Bovard

Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual.

James Bovard

The government's appearing to be a necessary evil does not oblige people to trust it. We face a choice of trusting government or trusting freedom-trusting overlords who have lied and abused their power or trusting individuals to make the most of their own lives.

James Bovard

As soon as people drop the reins on government, government will leash the people.

Government is in place for our survival and to hopefully promote justice and peace.

Hutton Gibson

They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

The people want government that works for them at every level. They want good government that begins at their doorstep in the barangay, and does not end before the closed door of a bureaucrat in Metro Manila.

James Buchanan

The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.

James Buchanan

The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.

J. William Fulbright

"Our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.

Francis Schaeffer

If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.

Francis Schaeffer

We must realize that the Reformation world view leads in the direction of government freedom. But the humanist world view with inevitable certainty leads in the direction of statism. This is so because humanists, having no god, must put something at the center, and it is inevitably society, government, or the state.

Francis Quarles

Of all the difficulties in a state, the temper of a true government most felicifies and perpetuates it; too sudden alterations distemper it. Had Nero tuned his kingdom as he did his harp, his harmony had been more honorable, and his reign more prosperous.

Hugh Jackman

Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as '£10 poms.' Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest, educated white people - to come and live in Australia.

Ivan Krastev

As a rule, governments monitor people.

H. L. Mencken

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.

J. Reuben Clark

The principle of allegiance to the Constitution is basic to our freedom....when you see government invading any of these realms of freedom which we have under our Constitution, you will know that they are putting shackles on your liberty, and that tyranny is creeping upon you, ...no matter what the reason and excuse therefore may be.

Pell Grants open a lot of doors, but they rely on a solvent government.

Our position would be that it is, and always has been, government property.

Chris Matthews

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

Dianne Feinstein

All vets are mentally ill in some way and government should prevent them from owning firearms.

George Pataki

I'm thinking about governing as the governor of this state, and that's what I'm going to do.

Ben Carson

Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

What do you think, what people want from their governments? Simple. A better life for themselves and for their children. Government that is fair, just and responsible.

We don't like the government to tell us what to do.

Paul Bremer

the question is how do we select a transitional government by the end of June.

The party has to be rebuilt on all levels. In a way, maybe it's to be expected when you've had a governor in office for 12 years and he and his people are stepping down.

We are no pariah state. This government will prove this.

Abbas Kiarostami

The Iranian government as a whole has no relationship with my films. They're not particularly interested, perhaps this kind of cinema is not very interesting to them.

Fernando Meirelles

When I first read the script, the political side of the story really interested me. I was interested in talking about pharmaceutical companies, and how corporations and government work together,

Ludwig von Mises

Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions...

Ludwig von Mises

The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody...It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.

Ludwig von Mises

Liberty is always freedom from the government.