Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emiliano Zapata

Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist.

Emiliano Zapata

If there is not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government.

John McLaughlin

The biggest government waste: The death penalty. An individual death-penalty case could climb to $100 million, much of it spent at the litigation level. Also, DNA evidence has exonerated nearly 300 death-row inmates.

John Mellencamp

We have been lied to and terrorized by our own government, and it is time to take action.

John McCain

And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, ‘Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area.

John McCain

Excessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government.

John McCain

I am all in favor of pay equity for women, but this kind of legislation, as is typical of what's being proposed by my friends on the other side of the aisle, opens us up to lawsuits for all kinds of problems.....This is government playing a much, much greater role in the business of a private enterprise system.

John McCain

Without trusting government you can't do a lot of things.

John McCain

In the Washington soft money game, big business and big labor are accomplices working together to protect the mushy middle of big government, with plenty of special interest plums: Big unions get big spending and big business gets corporate welfare and special tax breaks - all at the expense of average Americans.

John McCain

On my honor, I swear to you, that from my first day in office to the last breath I draw, I will do everything in my power to make you proud of your government.

John Jay Hooker

Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to the U.S. capital and to make use of my right to point out to government officials and to the media when they are wrong.

John Jay Hooker

But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.

John Hay

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.

John Hancock

The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it.

Joan Robinson

Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.

Geoff Hoon

The Government have made it clear that the constitutional treaty will be ratified in the UK only after a referendum.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

Lord Acton

There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.

Lord Acton

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

Lyn Nofziger

That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

Lyndon B. Johnson

We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]

Henry Paulson

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

Johann Lamont

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

John Major

You're lucky to head a coalition government. I am a coalition government on my own.

John Locke

If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.

It's about money, permanent and significant damages. It's also about accountability on the part of the government and the media.

Robert Novak

It is up to the government to keep the government's secrets, ... Meet the Press.

This is the most secure note the U.S. government has ever produced.

Dick Armey

The people themselves, not their government, should be trusted with spending their own money and making their own decisions.

Dick Armey

[T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom, just waiting for us to pick the whole thing up and heave it away. It has to happen. Free people can put up with such laws only for so long.

Dexter Scott King

The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.

David R. Brower

Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.