Quotes about government
government order safety
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people. Samuel Chase
government safety may
Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor. Samuel Horsley
government hiccups body
You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body. Salman Khurshid
government west revolution
The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution. Salman Rushdie
government enemy needs
Government is the enemy until you need a friend. William Cohen
government stupidity interest
If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life. Robertson Davies
government giving-money people
The US, for historical reasons, mistrusts the concept of a welfare state, and this mistrust shows itself nakedly under present US government, which commits uncounted billions of the national wealth to what it calls defence, and is close-fisted in giving money to plans which would ameliorate the grinding poverty of a great part of its people. Quite simply, in Canada you could not get away with that.
government way politician
Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
government doe burning
The prima facie evidence provision in this case ignores all of the contextual factors that are necessary to decide whether a particular cross burning is intended to intimidate. The First Amendment does not permit such a shortcut. Sandra Day O'Connor
government results resources
The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.
government needs unnecessary
The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government. Rose Wilder Lane
government
Less government in business and more business in government. Warren G. Harding
government income gone
...100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Debt...all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from government. Ronald Reagan
government remember-you remembers-you
It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.
government car people
Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: 'We the people.' 'We the people' tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. 'We the people' are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which 'We the people' tell the government what it is allowed to do. 'We the people' are free.
government giving stealing
Government Steals from the needy and gives to the greedy
government presidential special
We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.
government presidential decision
Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.
government federal-government states
The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.
government politics problem
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
government political voting
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
government people debt
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
government games hell
Free enterprise is a rough and competitive game. It is a hell of a lot better than a government monopoly.
government answers doe
The . . . inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
government political liberty
As government expands, liberty contracts.
government people should
. . . Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves.
government world recognition
Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.
government welfare function
I thought the function of the government was to promote the general welfare, not to provide it.
government self competition
Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.
government justice mind
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? Saint Augustine
government practice support
The Chinese government does not engage in theft of commercial secrets in any form, nor does it encourage or support Chinese companies to engage in such practices in any way. Xi Jinping
government facts form
And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms. Wole Soyinka
government support folks
Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't. Winston Churchill