Government Quotes - page 9

Don't let the government win. (Howard Stern)
Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government. View quote
Grover Cleveland
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor. View quote
Grover Cleveland
You cannot possibly have a broader basis for any government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights. View quote
William Lloyd Garrison
Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four. View quote
Bruce Schneier
If there is not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government. View quote
Emiliano Zapata
Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government. View quote
Edward Bernays
You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so, that's what's happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government, that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don't want the jobs that are available. View quote
Sharron Angle
We already had success in creating a democratic, national government that is revolutionary and popular. That is how socialism begins, not with decrees. View quote
Salvador Allende
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. View quote
Tom Robbins
Lord, the money we do spend on government, and it's not one bit better than the government that we got for one-third the money 20 years ago. (Will Rogers)
In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do. View quote
Hugo Black
There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time. View quote
Kamisese Mara
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government. View quote
Milton Friedman
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. View quote
Milton Friedman
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition. View quote
Learned Hand
If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
Write on my gravestone ''Infidel, Traitor.''--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong traitor to every government that oppresses the people. (Wendell Phillips)
Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community. View quote
George Mason
A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government. View quote
Lysander Spooner
But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain-that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist. View quote
Lysander Spooner
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. View quote
Ansel Adams