Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Fischer

I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.

Ludwig von Mises

If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or later, when the monetary systems of those nations pursuing this course will break down completely. The purchasing power of the monetary unit will decline more and more, until finally it disappears completely.

Ludwig von Mises

Welfare policies never attain those - allegedly beneficial - ends which the government and the self-styled progressives who advocated them wanted to attain, but - on the contrary - bring about a state of affairs which - from the very point of view of the government and its supporters - is even more unsatisfactory than the previous state of affairs they wanted to 'improve.'

Dennis Prager

Governments grow as God declines, in both Europe and the United States

Dennis Prager

The bigger the government, the less the citizens do for one another. If the state will take care of me and my neighbors, why should I? This is why Western Europeans, people who have lived in welfare states far longer than Americans have, give less to charity and volunteer less time to others than do Americans of the same socioeconomic status.

Dennis Prager

No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.

Dennis Prager

God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government?

Denis Hayes

We need a firm cap on carbon emissions from fossil fuels. No coal, oil, or gas could enter the economy until the buyer had a permit. All permits would be auctioned by the federal government, and the number of permits auctioned would be decreased by three percent per year. Permits could be traded, but they could not be created out of whole cloth by companies that plant forests or dump iron filings at sea.

Barbara Bush

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

Antonio Munoz Molina

One can criticize the Israeli government, but it is not fair to judge the people of Israel.

Edmund Muskie

You have the God-given right to kick the government around - don't hesitate to do so.

Edmund Burke

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

Edmund Burke

All government is founded on compromise and banter.

Edward Norton

It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government.

Edward Norton

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

Edward Snowden

Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.

Edward Snowden

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

We didn't think the government would have enough evidence. I don't think any of it is damaging.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.

Edward Abbey

A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.

Edward Abbey

Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.

Edward Abbey

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

Aristotle

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

Aristotle

There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government, which are said to be (1) monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4) the so-called aristocracy or government of the best. But there is also a fifth, which retains the generic name of polity or constitutional government;

Aristotle

Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy.

Aristotle

A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge;

Aristotle

The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are truly citizens, ought to participate in its advantages.

Aristotle

The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

Aristotle

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

Aristotle

Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

Dirk Kempthorne

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

And when the income tax was introduced, she was the first person to sue the government over taxes.

Ethics in government has always been important to me.