Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Boucher

And, as I said, this has been something the whole U.S. government has worked on.

Edward Bennett Williams

Civil liberties are a great heritage for Americans. They are not rights that the government gives to the people, they are the rights that the people carved out for themselves when they created the government.

Edward Albee

The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.

The market is dithering, because on the one hand we have the interest-rate gap, but on the other we have still large U.S. government debt.

Henry W. Kendall

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.

Henry Steele Commager

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.

Henry Steele Commager

Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism.

Heidi Heitkamp

We can only imagine what would happen to our health care and to the quality of our health care here in North Dakota if we took the federal government out of health care.

Hawa Abdi

I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.

Hjalmar Schacht

Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.

Henry Paulson

It is the policy of the federal government to use all resources at its disposal to make our financial system stronger.

Henry Paulson

There is no way to stabilize the markets other than through government intervention.

Henry Ford

If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation.

Helen Prejean

Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.

Helen Prejean

In sorting out my feelings and beliefs, there is, however, one piece of moral ground of which I am absolutely certain: if I were to be murdered I would not want my murderer executed. I would not want my death avenged. Especially by government--which can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.

Henry Ward Beecher

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

Henry Ward Beecher

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

Henry Ward Beecher

The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.

Henry Ward Beecher

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

Henry Knox

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.

Henry Knox

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.

Henry L. Stimson

There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.

Henry Clay

All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.

Henry Clay

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

Henry Clay

The imposition of taxes has its limits. There is a maximum which cannot be transcended. Suppose the citizen to be taxed by the general government to the utmost extent of his ability, or a thing as much as it can possibly bear, and the state imposes a tax at the same time, which authority is to take it?

Johann Lamont

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

Hamid Karzai

We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together.

Gustave Courbet

I too am a government.

Gray Davis

I'm doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

All government is an ugly necessity.

John Dryden

No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.