Government Quotes - page 7

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. (Ayn Rand)
The US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. View quote
Edward Snowden
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. View quote
William Ellery Channing
We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government. View quote
William O. Douglas
The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas. View quote
Ron Paul
You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices. View quote
Karel Čapek
Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests. View quote
David Duke
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. View quote
Edmund Burke
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. View quote
Edmund Burke
If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, - and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter. (Edmund Burke)
There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions. View quote
John Rawls
The motivation for war is simple. The U. S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U. S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use cheap labor in those countries, which will make Americans rich. View quote
Michael Moore
Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite ... to the attainment of the ends of such power. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it. View quote
William Godwin
A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan to the Suez Canal. View quote
Moshe Dayan
INSURRECTION, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
OPPOSITION, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust. (Ralph Nader)
But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people. View quote
Stephen Harper
It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta, to limit the extent to which an aggressive and hostile federal government can encroach upon legitimate provincial jurisdiction. View quote
Stephen Harper
...they want the federal government controlling Social Security, like it's some kind of federal program. View quote
George W. Bush
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks. View quote
John C. Calhoun