Government
Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.
Author: Donald RumsfeldTopics: Famous, Government, Political
The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.
Author: Donald RumsfeldTopics: Famous, Government, Responsibility
You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.
Author: David HareTopics: Famous, Feelings, Government
I’m wondering if they haven’t reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.
Author: Teri GarrTopics: Famous, Government, Inspirational
If I were in the government I would have a brigade of policemen assigned to keeping an eye on people who paint landscapes outdoors. Oh, I wouldn’t want anyone killed. I’d be satisfied with just a little buckshot to begin with.
Author: Edgar DegasTopics: Famous, Government
Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?
Author: Vladimir LeninTopics: Famous, Government
Laying the groundwork for smaller, smarter government, especially at the federal level, is going to be tough. But it is essential for getting us back on the path to long-term prosperity.
Author: Charles KochTopics: Famous, Feelings, Good Governance, Government
The country – or the government – is headed for bankruptcy. So we’re going to be continuing to speak out against corporate welfare as something that hurts everybody except those direct beneficiaries.
Author: Charles KochTopics: Famous, Government, Inspirational
The government bugged the men’s room in the local disco lounge.
Author: Don HenleyTopics: Famous, Government
I think Twitter will be a fundamental part of how people interact with their government.
Author: Evan WilliamsTopics: Famous, Government
I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.
Author: Imran KhanTopics: Famous, Government
We can’t have democracy if we’re having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we’ve never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.
Author: Larry PageTopics: Democracy, Famous, Government
Our government will be dedicated to improving public services and facilities.
Author: Yogi AdityanathTopics: Famous, Government
The tradition that I come from has a great influence on Karnataka. Not just politically – it’s also my social and moral responsibility to draw citizens facing bad governance and lawlessness to a leadership that is capable of delivering good governance and development.
Author: Yogi AdityanathTopics: Famous, Good Governance, Government
Our government will not discriminate based on caste or creed. We are here to serve everyone equally.
Author: Yogi AdityanathTopics: Famous, Good Governance, Government
Our government will work tirelessly to ensure the safety and security of women.
Author: Yogi AdityanathTopics: Famous, Government
My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.
Author: Narendra ModiTopics: Famous, Government, People
E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.
Author: Narendra ModiTopics: Economy, Famous, Government
The government should only intervene in the economy to correct market failures and ensure justice.
Author: Adam SmithTopics: Government, Inspirational
The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: Famous, Government, Love, Men, Souls
Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if ‘facts’ are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: Famous, Government, Numbers, Republican
I’m not driven to get back into politics. It’s not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I’ve been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: Famous, Government, National, Politics, State, Things, Years
The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
Author: J. C. WattsTopics: Disconnection, Faith, Famous, Government, Great, Love, Measure, Programs, Souls
It’s every American’s duty to support his government but not necessarily in the style to which it has become accustomed
Author: Thomas E. MannTopics: Duty, Famous, Feelings, Government, Life, Meaningful, Style, Support
We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.
Author: J. C. ChandorTopics: Famous, Government, Money, People
It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise… that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
Author: J. B. PritzkerTopics: Famous, Government, Long, Minimum, Think, Wage
First, a man of sense would have known that a single experiment is not sufficient to establish a general rule even in sciences much less complicated than the science of government; that, since the beginning of the world, no two political experiments were ever made of which all the conditions were exactly alike; and that the only way to learn civil prudence from history is to examine and compare an immense number of cases.
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Civil, Complicated, Establish, Experiment, Famous, Government, History, Life, Meaningful, Political, Rule, Single, Sufficient
A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Famous, Feelings, Function, Government, Life, Meaningful, Punishing, Wrong
The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Fall, Famous, Feelings, Government, Meaningful, Sound
It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Famous, Feelings, Government, Laid, Life, Meaningful, Rule
The end of government is the happiness of the people
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Famous, Feelings, Government, Happiness, Life, Meaningful
I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either the poor would plunder the rich, and civilisation would perish; or order and property would be saved by a strong military government, and liberty would perish
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Effect, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Government, Life, Meaningful, Rich
There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Establish, Famous, Feelings, Government, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful
That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Desire, Famous, Feelings, Government, Happy, Life, Meaningful
Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Free trade, Government, Life, Meaningful, People
The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Definition, Famous, Fundamental, Government, Rights
In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only, and leaves to the several states, a residuary and inviolable sovereignty over all other objects.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Federalism, Government, Sovereignty
There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermingle with religion. Its least interference with it would be a most flagrant usurpation.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, Religion, Shadow
A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, Mean, Promise, Seeking
THE Constitution proposed by the convention may be considered under two general points of view. The FIRST relates to the sum or quantity of power which it vests in the government, including the restraints imposed on the States. The SECOND, to the particular structure of the government, and the distribution of this power among its branches.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, First, Government, Point of view, Second, Views
It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too little power and that the line which divides these extremes should be so inaccurately defined by experience.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Experiences, Famous, Government, Liberty, Reflection
The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that it must produce approbation and a desire of imitation, as avenues may be found for truth to the knowledge of nations.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Established, Famous, Feelings, Government, Knowledge, Reasons
Large and permanent military establishments … are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant to be a constitutional bulwark.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Establishment, Famous, Government, Military, Permanent, President
Landholders ought to have a share in the government to support these invaluable interests and check the other many. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.
Author: James Madison
Topics: Famous, Government, Landholders, Minority, President, Support
It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued; and that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment of this object.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, People, Real
[Y]ou will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Force, Government, Resources, Understand
Because finally, ‘the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience’ is held by the same tenure with all his other rights. If we recur to its origin, it is equally the gift of nature; if we weigh its importance, it cannot be less dear to us; if we consider the ‘Declaration of those rights which pertain to the good people of Virginia, as the basis and foundation of government,’ it is enumerated with equal solemnity, or rather studied emphasis.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Declaration, Exercise, Famous, Government, Rights, Virginia
The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Essential, Famous, Government, People, Power
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Fountain, Government, Liberty, People, Power
If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish an old government and establish a new one. This principle is not only recorded in every public archive, written in every American heart, and sealed with the blood of American martyrs, but is the only lawful tenure by which the United States hold their existence as a nation.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Establish, Famous, Government, Heart, Men, Old
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Foundation, Government, Happiness, People, Powers, Rights, Safety
Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Community, Famous, Government, Majority, Power
Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded. Thy are barred from the latter functions by a great principle in free government, analogous to that which separates the sword from the purse, or the power of executing from the power of enacting laws.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Free, Function, Government, Judges, Laws, Power, Principles, Safe, War
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Duty, Famous, Government, Guards, Right, Security
I entirely concur in the propriety of restoring to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is a legitimate constitution. And, if that be not the guide in expounding it, there can be no security for consistent and stable government.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Consistent, Constitution, Famous, Government, Nation, Security
[T]here remains [in some parts of the country] a strong bias towards the old error, that without some sort of alliance or coalition between Govt. & Religion neither can be duly supported. Such indeed is the tendency to such a coalition, and such its corrupting influence on both parties, that the danger cannot be too carefully guarded agst.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Church, Famous, Government, Influence, Religions, Separation, States
In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Check, Control, Famous, Freedom, Government, Leaders, People, Rule
A good Government implies two things: first, fidelity to the object of Government, which is the happiness of the People; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Federalist-no-62, Government, Happiness, Knowledge, People
It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Control, Evil, Famous, Good, Government
The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Danger, Famous, Government, Important, Operations, Peace, Security, State, Times, Times of difficulty, War
But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflection on human nature?
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, Human Nature, Reflection
If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one…
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, General, Government, Money, Powers
You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Control, Famous, Government, Next place, Obliged
The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, People, Powerful
Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by ecclesiastical corporations. The establishment of the chaplainship in Congress is a palpable violation of equal rights as well as of Constitutional principles. The danger of silent accumulations and encroachments by ecclesiastical bodies has not sufficiently engaged attention in the U.S.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Church, Famous, Government, Separation, State
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce. … The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, Improvements, Prosperity
A government that does not trust it’s law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is itself unworthy of trust.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, Trust, Unworthy
Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Charity, Duty, Famous, Government, Legislative
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.
Author: James MadisonTopics: End, Famous, Government, Justice, Liberty
The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, Imperfect, Problem
As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none can be more sacred, because they are bound, on the conscience by the religious sanctions of an oath. As metes and bounds of government, they transcend all other land-marks, because every public usurpation is an encroachment on the private right, not of one, but of all.
Author: James Madison
Topics: Famous, Government, Land, Obligation, Religious
But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people, towards a political system which betrays so many marks of infirmity, and disappoints so many of their flattering hopes. No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected, without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, Heart
If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare… they may appoint teachers in every state… The powers of Congress would subvert the very foundation, the very nature of the limited government established by the people of America.
Author: James BaldwinTopics: Famous, Government
The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but more especially that neither of them be suffered to overleap the great Barrier which defends the rights of the people. The Rulers who are guilty of such an encroachment, exceed the commission from which they derive their authority and are Tyrants. The people who submit to it are governed by laws made neither by themselves nor by an authority derived from them, and are slaves.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, Law, Preservation, Rights, Slaves
Of all the objections which have been framed against the federal Constitution, this is perhaps the most extraordinary. Whilst the objection itself is levelled against a pretended oligarchy, the principle of it strikes at the very root of republican government.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, Roots
An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, Safety, Second Amendment
Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient certainty, its three great provinces the legislative, executive, and judiciary; or even the privileges and powers of the different legislative branches.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Different, Executive, Famous, Government, Judiciary, Legislative, Powers, Privilege, Skill
Experience assures us, that the efficacy of the provision has been greatly over-rated; and that some more adequate defense is indispensably necessary for the more feeble, against the more powerful members of the government.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Adequate, Experience, Famous, Government, Powerful
Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of frequency may be absolutely necessary for the purpose, does not appear to be susceptible of any precise calculation; and must depend on a variety of circumstances with which it may be connected. Let us consult experience, the guide that ought always to be followed, whenever it can be found.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Doe, Election, Famous, Government
At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the right, or that a minority will have the force to subvert a government . . . . But theoretic reasoning in this, as in most other cases, must be qualified by the lessons of practice.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, Majority, Practice, Views
The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Function, Government, Majority, Minority, Primary
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, Happiness, Ideas, Liberty, People
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, Liberty, Rights
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, Nature, Patritic
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, Historical, Patriotic
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, Liberty, People, Power
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, Liberty, Religion
Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Charity, Duty, Famous, Government, Legislative
Should an unwarrantable measure of the federal government be unpopular in particular States, which would seldom fail to be the case, or even a warrantable measure be so, which may sometimes be the case, the means of opposition to it are powerful and at hand.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Federal, Government, Hands, Measure, Opposition, Powerful, Seldom, States, Unpopular, Unwarranted
Democracy is the most vile form of government.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Democracy, Famous, Government, Vile
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Essence, Government, Human, Liable, Powers
A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, Oppression, Property, Rewards, Security, Unequal
The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon… has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Character, Communication, Examining, Famous, Free, Government, Guardians, Measure, Public, Right, Right to voice
Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Danger, Famous, Government, Oppression, Power, Real
War … should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Consequences, Declaration, Famous, Government, People, Support, War
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, Men, Necessary
Every new & successful example, therefore, of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance. And I have no doubt that every new example, will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion & Govt. will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, Purity, Religion, Separation, Successful
History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, History, Money, Money changers, Records, Violent
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Government, Public opinion, Real, Sovereign
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Freedom, Government, Religious life
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment, without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourish faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Decisions, Essential, Famous, Freedom, Government, Liberty, Life, Political, Troubles
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Democracy, Famous, Government, Public, Society
You are one with a crowd of men who have made what they call a government, who are masters of all the other men, and who eat the food the other men get and would like to eat themselves.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Crowd, Food, Government, Masters
When the news is good, the BBC view is: ‘Get the government out of the picture quickly, don’t allow them to say anything about it.’ When the news is bad: ‘Let’s all dump on the government.’
Author: Iain Duncan SmithTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Good, Government, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Pictures, Positive
Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most. That is what being in the United Kingdom is all about.
Author: Iain Duncan SmithTopics: Commitment, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Government, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Money, People, Positive
All too often, government’s response to social breakdown has been a classic case of ‘patching’ – a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting – even reinforcing – dysfunctional behaviour.
Author: Iain Duncan SmithTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Government, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Money, People, Positive
Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.
Author: Iain Duncan SmithTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Government, Inspirational, Labour, Life, Market, Meaningful, People
All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
Author: I.F.StoneTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Government, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Say, Says
Lobbyists really are experts in their fields and know what they are talking about. That’s why the government always listens to them as they tell the government what it’s doing wrong and what it should be doing instead.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Famous, Government, Lobbyists, Talking
I write about how in Midland, the mayor instituted water conservation measures like restrictions on car washing. He made a point though that they were only “suggestions” and not government telling people what to do. But then his constituents got very ticked off at the sight of their neighbors breaking the rules and demanded that they be made into actual laws with penalties.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Famous, Government, Laws, Measure, Penalty, Sight, Suggestions, Water
“All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.”
Author: I.F.StoneTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Government, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Run
I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn’t sing it. It’s called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it’s about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans
Author: Thom YorkeTopics: Famous, Feelings, Government, Meaningful, Plastic, Song
All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.
Author: I.F.StoneTopics: Disaster, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Government, Inspirational, Lies, Life, Meaningful, Positive
If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie.
Author: I.F.Stone
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Government, Inspirational, Lie, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Words
You know, I really miss sex scandals. They’re generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they’re going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Business, Famous, Government, Mean, Missing, Running, Sex scandals
Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party’s programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It’s not because the Republicans don’t have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Education, Famous, Government, Health, Office, Party
Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.
Author: George Haven PutnamTopics: Destruction, Duty, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Government, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Neither, People, Positive
Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us.
Author: George Haven PutnamTopics: Destroy, Dispute, Famous, Government, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Purpose
Americans are ugly unwashed clods that live off of government cheese. If I could, I’d take every living American, grind them up into a fine paste and use that paste to feed the dolphins, because they are neglected by the evil Americans
Author: Thom YorkeTopics: Dolphins, Famous, Feelings, Government, Life, Living, Meaningful, Neglected, Paste, Ugly, Unwashed
The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn’t possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn’t have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: College, Famous, Government
If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people’s dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Crimes, Dog, Famous, Government, Order, Protect
I’m being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women’s most personal choices.
Topics: Crazy, Demand, Famous, Free, Government, Limiting, Obsessed, People, Personal choiceI think country needs to have a sporting culture. I think if sports were taken as curriculum in school and are encouraged in right way like government of Maharashtra and Haryana have done given Marks for Sports and encouraging them with good jobs.
Author: Gagan NarangTopics: Country, Culture, Encouragement, Famous, Government, Jobs, School, Sports
By any definition, what happened in Bhutan in the years 1989-93 was ethnic cleansing. The Bhutanese government denies this and has refused to repatriate any of those forcibly expelled.
Author: Kai BirdTopics: Definition, Famous, Government, Refused
We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought
Author: Theresa MayTopics: Difficult, Famous, Government, Meaningful, Public
For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them
Author: Theresa MayTopics: Deliver, Famous, Feelings, Government, Meaningful, Voters
For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them
Author: Theresa MayTopics: Deliver, Famous, Government, Matter, Meaningful
I think major reorganization is not something the government’s about to do
Author: Theresa May
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Government, Meaningful
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
Author: Theresa MayTopics: Duty, Famous, Government, Liberties, Meaningful, Security, Substantially
I’m sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong
Author: Theophile GautierTopics: Famous, Feelings, Government, Meaningful, Ministers, Wrong
I also said, men are like curling irons, they never get out of your hair.
And they are like government bonds, they take so long to mature.
Topics: Famous, Government, Iron, Long Time, Mature, Men, Never
Among the many other questions raised by the nebulous concept of “greed” is why it is a term applied almost exclusively to those who want to earn more money or to keep what they have already earned – never to those wanting to take other people’s money in taxes or to those wishing to live on the largesse dispensed from such taxation. No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Described, Dispensed, Exclusively, Famous, Government, Greed, Money, Nebulous, Question
Government central planning means over-riding other people’s plans
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Famous, Government, Meaningful, Over-riding, Planning
Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Economy, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Government, Meaningful
Study after study, not only here but in other countries, show that the most affordable housing is where there has been the least government interference with the market – contrary to rhetoric
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Countries, Famous, Feelings, Government, Life, Market, Meaningful, Study
The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Competition, Desire, Famous, Government, Meaningful, Prevented, Price, Profits
If sanity ever returns to our society and we stop taking pretentious elites seriously, one of the signs will be that the public will force the removal of those ugly pieces of twisted metal that are called ‘art’ in front of government buildings
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Building, Famous, Force, Government, Pretentious, Public, Returns, Sanity, Seriously
Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Competition, Effective, Famous, Government, Meaningful, Protecting
Low inflation and government prudence may be harmful for economic development.
Author: Ha-Joon ChangTopics: Development, Famous, Government, Harmful, Low inflation
A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Famous, Government, Ignorance, Life, Meaningful, Nation, Support, Uninstructed
A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Constitution, Government, Illegal, Limits, Logical, Meaningful, Power
Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. Freedom and security
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Designs, Famous, Feelings, Freedom, Government, Inability, Meaningful, Moral, Necessary, Origin, Security
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Built, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Government, Innocence, Kings, Meaningful, Paradise, Ruins
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Author: Ha-Joon ChangTopics: Famous, Government, Limits, Protecting
I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered; and the easier repaired when disordered..d
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Disordered, Draws, Experiences, Famous, Government, Idea, Meaningful, Nature, Principles, Simple
It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments..
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Confused, Distinction, Famous, Government, Important, Lose, Meaningful, People, Sight
Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and incensing them to hostilities. Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of government
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Ambition, Famous, Government, Heating, Hostilities, Imagination, Incensing, Intrigue, Meaningful, Medium, Nation, Perfidy, System
When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Center, Corruption, Extraordinary, Famous, Feelings, Government, Individual, Meaningful, Power, Round
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Dress, Famous, Feelings, Government, Innocence, Lost, Meaningful
A government of our own is our natural right.
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Famous, Government, Meaningful, Natural, Own, Right
From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Expected, Famous, Feelings, Government, System, War
Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Experiences, Famous, Government, Greedy, Industry, Meaningful, Thrusting
A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Constitution, Famous, Government, Meaningful, People, Power, Right
Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Famous, Government, Humanity, Lay, Life, Mankind, Meaningful, Punishment, Root, Sanguinary, Teach
The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Crimes, Famous, Feelings, Government, Guilt, Life, Meaningful
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Feelings, Government, Intolerable, Meaningful
Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Famous, Government, Life, Meaningful, People, Power, Right
A government of our own is our natural right; and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he will become convinced, that it is infinitely wiser and safer, to form a constitution of our own in a cool deliberate manner, while we have it in our power, than to trust such an interesting event to time and chance.
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Famous, Feelings, Government, Life, Manner, Meaningful, Natural, People, Power, Reflection, Trust
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Abolished, Establish, Famous, Government, Life, Meaningful, Nation, People
Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Famous, Government, Ignorance, Influence, Machinery, Mankind, Meaningful, Opposites, Reason, Submits, Sufficiently
It has been the scheme of the Christian Church, and of all the other invented systems of religion, to hold man in ignorance of the Creator, as it is of Government to hold man in ignorance of his rights. The systems of the one are as false as those of the other, and are calculated for mutual support.
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Christian, Church, Creator, False, Government, Hold, Ignorance, Invented, Mutual, Religious, Right, Scheme, Support, System
What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government… it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Famous, Government, Meaningful, Monarchy, Naturally, Opposed, Particular
Government is a necessary evil
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Evil, Famous, Feelings, Government, Meaningful, Necessary
Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Famous, Government, Meaningful, Produce, Society
I am distinctly opposed to visibly arrogant and arbitrary extremes of government–but this is simply because I wish the safety of an artistic and intellectual civilisation to be secure, not because I have any sympathy with the coarse-grained herd who would menace the civilisation if not placated by sops.
Author: H. P. LovecraftTopics: Civilization, Famous, Government, Intellectual, Safety, Wish
A Democracy is the most vile form of government there is!
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Democracy, Famous, Government, Meaningful, Most, Vileness
The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Country, Duty, Famous, Government, Meaningful, Patriots, Protect
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Evil, Famous, Government, Life, Wise
Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None of the great boons and usufructs that were to follow the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment has come to pass. There is not less drunkenness in the Republic, but more. There is not less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Famous, Favorite, Government, Law, Prohibition, Years
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Essence, Famous, Government, Men
All government, of course, is against liberty.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Famous, Government, Liberty
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Evil, Famous, Government
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Famous, Government, Holding, Office, Talent, Unworthiness
[Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as a separate and autonomous corporation, mainly devoted to exploiting the population for the benefit of its own members.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Citizen, Famous, Government, Population
Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. The art of government is the exclusive possession of quacks and frauds. It has been so since the earliest days, and it will probably remain so until the end of time.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Effort, Famous, Government, Rational, System
The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Famous, Government, Ideas, Idiots, Laws
A government, at bottom, is nothing more than a gang of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men … Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent. Indeed, it would not be far wrong to describe the best as the common enemy of all decent citizens.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Citizen, Common, Cruel, Decent, Enemy, Famous, Good, Government, Inferior, Matter, Nothing, Practical, Tolerable, Unintelligent, Wrong
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Decent, Famous, Government, Lives, Man
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Capable, Dangerous, Dishonest, Famous, Government, Insane, Intolerable, Man, Prevailing, Superstitions, Things, Think
It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go….We are living in the end of the sovereign states….In the great struggle to evoke a Westernized World Socialism, contemporary governments may vanish….Countless people…will hate the new world order….and will die protesting against it.
Author: H. G. WellsTopics: Famous, Government, Hate, Individualism, Struggle, System, World
The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than ‘the gang in possession,’ and its days are numbered.
Author: H. G. WellsTopics: Famous, Government, Inspirational, Legal, Men, Rulers, True strength
There always will naturally be some differences when you form the government with coalition parties. Even some single party governments also face several issues.
Author: H. D. Kumaraswamy
Topics: Facing, Famous, Government, Issues
I personally thank Rahul Gandhi. He has given me complete free hand in running the government.
Author: H. D. KumaraswamyTopics: Famous, Given, Government, Running, Thankful
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Discipline, Empowerment, Famous, Feelings, Freedom, Government, Inspirational, Meaningful, People, Positive
The government is us; WE are the government, you and I.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Topics: Government, Self, Self Belief, Self Care
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Diversity, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Government, Injurious, Injury, Leg, Legitimate, Meaningful, Neighbor, Neither, People, Personal, Picks, Pocket, Powers, Religion, Tolerance, Twenty
It is error alone which needs the support of the government. Truth can stand by itself.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Alone, Error, Government, Independence, Support, Trust, Truth, Validation
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Alone, Democracy, Famous, Feelings, Government, Leadership, Meaningful, Participation, Political system, Responsibility, Rulers, Safe, Trust, Trusted
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Famous, Feelings, Government, Happiness, Inspirational, Labors, Meaningful, Positive, Predict, Pretense, Prevention, Responsibility, Under, Wasting
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Communication, Decision, Famous, Feelings, Freedom, Government, Latter, Meaningful, Media, Moment, Newspapers, Positive, Prefer
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Citizenship, Collaboration, Connection, Engagement, Famous, Feeling, Feelings, Government, Inspirational, Involvement, Man, Meaningful, Part, Participation, Positive, Relationship, Strongest
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Corruption, Experience, Experiences, Famous, Government, Hath, Meaningful, Operation, Perverted, Philosophical, Political, Power, Shewn, Time, Under
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what not just the government should refuse, or rest on inference.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Constitution, Entitlement, Famous, Feelings, Government, Individual freedoms, Inference, Inspirational, Legal right, Meaningful, People, Positive, Protection, Refuse, Rest
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Care, Destruction, Duty, Famous, Feelings, Good, Government, Happiness, Human Life, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Objects, Positive, Priority, Responsibility
Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Author: Ronald ReaganTopics: Deeply, Democracy, Dying, Government, Honorable
Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.
Author: Ronald ReaganTopics: Government, Moment, Natural
The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government.
Author: Ronald ReaganTopics: Create, Government, States
Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.
Author: Ronald ReaganTopics: Government, Problem, Solution
The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power.
Author: Gabriel Garcia MarquezTopics: Changed, Experience, Famous, Government, Inspirational, Power, Taught
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
Author: Ronald ReaganTopics: English, Government, Language
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Author: Ronald ReaganTopics: Famous, Government, Limits, Ourselves, Protect
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments
Author: Franklin D. RooseveltTopics: Difference, Ending, Endless, Famous, Government, Inhuman, Inhumanity, Life, Meaningful
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the governmen
Author: Franklin D. RooseveltTopics: Control, Government, Information, Intertwined, Liberty, People, People Respect, People’s Opinions, Protect, Protecting, Strong, Strong attraction, Strong concepts, Surer, Surest
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written
Author: Franklin D. RooseveltTopics: Government, Rules, Rules to live by, United, United States
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned
Author: Franklin D. RooseveltTopics: Education, Government, Group, Grow up, Growing, Knowing yourself, Knowledge, Proper Utilization, Properly, True, True courage
Behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government
Author: Frank ZappaTopics: Famous, Government, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Move, Movement
It seems that the problem with government as an institution is uniformly bad, worldwide. It may be the ONLY thing that binds all nations together – the incompetence of all of their governments… The unions are the mafia, which is the CIA, which is the Catholic Church, which is the government, which is what’s the difference? It’s corrupt! It’s the same guys pulling these strings, you know? One day he pulls the string and this lamp comes out, the next say he pulls the string and there’s a missile coming out
Author: Frank ZappaTopics: Corruption, Difference, Famous, Government, Inspirational, Institutional, Institutional engagement, Lamp, Life, Meaningful, String, World
I believe that people have a right to decide their own destinies; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only so long as) individual citizens give it a temporary license to exist, in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy, you own the government. It doesn’t own you
Author: Frank ZappaTopics: Democracy, Destination, Famous, Government, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Promise, Sudden, Suffer
I’m vile and perverted. I’m obsessed and deranged. I’ve existed for years but very little has changed. I’m the tool of the government and industry too. For I’m destined to rule and regulate you. You may think I’m pernicious, but you can’t look away. I’ll make you think I’m delicious with the stuff that I say. I’m the best you can get… Have you guessed me yet? I’m the slime oozing out of your TV set.
Author: Frank ZappaTopics: Change, Changeable, Fame, Fame Obsession, Forward-looking, Forward-Thinking, Government, Industries, Literate, Little, Regular, Regularity, Rule, Rules to live by, Stuff, Think, Thinking mind, Years
Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex
Author: Frank ZappaTopics: Completely, Division, Government, Pure, Pure entertainment, Purest
Keep steady in the view of the great principles for which you contend. The safety of your homes and the lives of all you hold dear depend upon your courage and exertions. Let each man resolve to be victorious, and that the right of self government, liberty and peace shall find him a defender.
Author: Robert E. LeeTopics: Courage, Famous, Government, Principles, Victorious
All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government as originally organized should be administered in purity and truth.
Author: Robert E. LeeTopics: Established, Famous, Government, Organized, Originally, Purity, Truth, Union
A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.
Author: Eleanor RooseveltTopics: Famous, Government, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Neglected, Periods, Personal, Personal responsibility, Public, Public education
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Author: Eleanor RooseveltTopics: Europe, Faith, Famous, Government, Happy, History, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Religious
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
Author: Edmund BurkeTopics: Command, Famous, Fed, Government, Hand, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Wealth
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Author: Edmund BurkeTopics: Act, Compromise, Enjoyment, Famous, Founded, Government, Human, Life, Meaningful, Prudent, Virtue
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Author: Edmund BurkeTopics: Famous, feeble, Government, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Oppression, Unjust
In a way, the Nobel Prize has been something of a pain in the neck, though there was at least one time that I got some fun out of it, Shortly after I won the Prize, Gweneth and I received an invitation from the Brazilian government to be the guests of honor at the Carnaval celebrations in Rio.
Author: Richard P. FeynmanTopics: Government, Invitation, Pain, Received
Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.
Author: Richard M. NixonTopics: Famous, Government, Inspirational, Meaningful, Nothing, Opportunity
We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
Author: Richard M. NixonTopics: Always, Famous, Government, Life, Meaningful, Nation
Italy hasn’t had a government since Mussolini.
Author: Richard M. NixonTopics: Famous, Government, Italy, Life, Meaningful
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Author: Richard M. NixonTopics: Famous, Government, Meaningful, National
They say it’s the responsibility of the media to look at government – especially the President – with a microscope. I don’t argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it’s going too far.
Author: Richard M. NixonTopics: Famous, Government, Meaningful, President
To the ordinary guy, all this is a bunch of gobbledygook. But out of the gobbledygook comes a very clear thing: you can’t trust the government, you can’t believe what they say, and you can’t rely on their judgment.
Author: Richard M. NixonTopics: Clear, Experiences, Famous, Government, Meaningful
The government should be limited to its proper role, which is to protect our rights and ensure the rule of law.
Author: G. Gordon LiddyTopics: Famous, Government, Importance, Limiting
The government is not your friend. The government is an entity that wants to control you, that wants to tell you what to do, that wants to take away your freedoms.
Author: G. Gordon LiddyTopics: Distrust, Entity, Expressing, Famous, Government, Strong
The information that follows is taken primarily…from government hearings and reports.
Author: G. Edward GriffinTopics: Famous, Follow, Government, Hearing, Information
Freedom is not a privilege bestowed upon us by government, but a natural right inherent in humanity.
Author: G. Edward GriffinTopics: Famous, Freedom, Government, Humanity, Inherent, Inspirational, Privilege
To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.
Author: G. Edward GriffinTopics: Corruption, Famous, Government, Inspirational, Patriotism
We urge our people to exercise their franchise as citizens of this nation, but we do not tell them how to vote and we do not tell the government how it should be run.
Author: Gordon B. HinckleyTopics: Famous, Government, Inspirational, Involvement, People, Political issues
We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.
Author: Colin Powell
Topics: Country, Education, Famous, Government, Importance, Life, Meaningful, Replaced, Shine Through, Understand, Understanding Language
There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.
Author: Ray BradburyTopics: Famous, Government, Meaningful, People, Remember
We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
Author: Colin Powell
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Government, Life, Meaningful, Opportunity, People, People Respect, People’s Opinions, Terrible
When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.
Author: Colin Powell
Topics: Decide, Decision, Famous, Feelings, Government, Hear, Life, Meaningful, Military, Place, Preparations, Prepare, Responsibilities, State, United
I’m not really conservative. I’m conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don’t any more.
Author: Clint Eastwood
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Government, Life, Meaningful, Realizes, Really, Reason, Responsibilities, Responsive heart
The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that ‘if English was good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for me
Author: Christopher HitchensTopics: English, Feelings, Government, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Life, Meaningful
Salvation by society failed the most where it promised the most, in the communist countries. But it also failed in the West. Practically no government program enacted since the 1950s in the Western world – or in the communist countries – has been successful.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Communist, Famous, Government, Meaningful, Practically, Salvation, Successful
No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Advice, Famous, Government, Meaningful, Piece
Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one – except warfare – achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Famous, Government, Meaningful, Programs
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because the government is not. Why not? Animals don’t vote.
Author: Paul HarveyTopics: Famous, Government, Inspirational, Meaningful
Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
Author: Otto von BismarckTopics: Famous, Government, House, Universal
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Author: Napoleon BonaparteTopics: Famous, Government, Lion, Secrets, Sometimes
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Author: George Bernard ShawTopics: Famous, Government, Resources, Support
A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon – it won’t work and you can’t fire it.
Author: George S. PattonTopics: Broken, Famous, Fire, Government, Inspirational
Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTopics: Created, Disposition, Famous, Government, Inner indignation, Mind, Poverty, Rabble, Rich, Society
When the savages of Louisiana are desirous of fruit, they cut the tree to the root and gather the fruit. This is an emblem of despotic government.
Author: MontesquieuTopics: Famous, Government, Louisiana, Savages
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
Author: Milton FriedmanTopics: Combination, Famous, Good, Government, Meaningful, Paper, Perfectly
The role of government just considered is to do something that the market cannot do for itself, namely, to determine, arbitrate, and enforce the rules of the game.
Author: Milton FriedmanTopics: Famous, Government, Life, Meaningful, Something
The smaller the unit of government and the more restricted the functions assigned government, the less likely it is that its actions will reflect special interests rather than the general interest.
Author: Milton FriedmanTopics: Famous, Functions, Government, Meaningful
I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it’s only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.
Author: Milton FriedmanTopics: Famous, God, Government, Greater, Meaningful, Prevents, Waste
There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves.
Author: Milton FriedmanTopics: Effect, Famous, Government, Meaningful, Place
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
Author: Milton FriedmanTopics: Famous, Government, Meaningful, Mismanagement, Political, Work, Works
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
Author: Milton FriedmanTopics: Famous, Government, Life, Meaningful, People, Protect
We do not need to import any foreign economic ideas or any foreign government. We had better stick to the American brand of government, the American brand of equality, and the American brand of wages. America had better stay American
Author: Calvin CoolidgeTopics: Equality, Government, Need, Stick
I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeTopics: Freedom, Government, Hard, Hope of reward, Hopeful, Industry, Work
The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country
Author: Calvin CoolidgeTopics: Country, Famous, Feelings, Government, Life, Meaningful, Never Ending, Religion
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining, in perpetuity, the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes
Author: Calvin CoolidgeTopics: Devices, Famous, Feelings, Government, Life, Meaningful, Right, Ultimate, United States
What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelTopics: Experience, Famous, Government, History, Never Learned Anything, People
It is typical of me to be finishing a long and distinguished drinking career just as the government is planning to open pubs 24 hours a day.
Author: George BestTopics: Drinking career, Famous, Government, Open pubs, Planning
The federal government should only be flying the flag that represents all people, the American flag.
Author: Marjorie Taylor GreeneTopics: Famous, Federal, Government, Meaningful, People
I continued my efforts to educate myself. This was no easy task under the Russian government of Warsaw, yet I found more opportunities than in the country.
Author: Marie CurieTopics: Continue, Country, Famous, Government, Meaningful, Opportunities, Russian
I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Famous, Feeling, Government, Inspirational
To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Efficacy, Famous, Government, Indispensable, Inspirational, Permanency, Union
A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Famous, Government, Inspirational, Servant
Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is a force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Famous, Fearful master, Fire, Force, Government, Inspirational, Irresponsible action
But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be expected thereafter.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Confusion, Famous, Government, Inspirational, Laws
Overgrown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Established, Famous, Government, Inauspicious, Inspirational, Liberty, Military, Overgrown
I anticipate with pleasing expectation that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow-citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever-favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and danger.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Famous, Freedom, Government, Inspirational, Retirement, Rewarding
The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Duty, Famous, Government, Ideas, Inspirational, Obedience, Power, Right
However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterward the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Famous, Government, Inspirational, Political parties, Unprincipled men
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a handy servant and a dangerous master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Famous, Force, Government, Handy servant, Inspirational, Irresponsible action, Reason
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered… deeply, …finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Famous, Government, Hands, Inspirational, Liberty, Preservation, Sacred fire
I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed towards the organization and administration of the government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Famous, Government, Humility, Imperfection, Inspirational, Liberty
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Education, Famous, Government, Inspirational, Liberty, Politics, Primary object, Youth
Whether manufactured by black, white, brown or yellow hands, a widget remains a widget – and it will be bought anywhere if the price and quality are right. The market is a more powerful and more reliable liberating force than government can ever be.
Author: Margaret ThatcherTopics: Famous, Government, Liberating, Manufactured, Meaningful, Powerful
The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone.
Author: Margaret ThatcherTopics: Everyone, Famous, Government, Larger, Meaningful
I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand ‘I have a problem, it is the Government’s job to cope with it!’ or ‘I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!’ ‘I am homeless, the Government must house me!’ and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first… There is no such thing as society. There is living tapestry of men and women and people and the beauty of that tapestry and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and help by our own efforts those who are unfortunate.
Author: Margaret ThatcherTopics: Children, Famous, Government, House, Inspirational, Job, Meaningful, People, Problem, Problems, Responsibility, Society, Tapestry, Understand, Unfortunate
The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Christian, Famous, Founded, Government, Inspirational, Religions, United States
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Constitution, Famous, Government, Inspirational, Make, People, Political system, Right
There are significant differences between the American and European version of capitalism. The American traditionally emphasizes the need for limited government, light regulations, low taxes and maximum labour-market flexibility. Its success has been shown above all in the ability to create new jobs, in which it is consistently more successful than Europe.
Author: Margaret ThatcherTopics: Ability, Capitalism, Famous, Flexibility, Government, Inspirational, Jobs, Meaningful, Significant, Success, Successful
Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.
Author: Margaret ThatcherTopics: Chance, Choose, Family, Famous, Government, Meaningful, Money, Tax, Wish
Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
Author: Margaret MeadTopics: Famous, Founded, Government, Individuals, Inspirational, Institutions, Motivated, Movements, Passion, Problem, Social, Solve
The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself. The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends; it is not our many Arab friends. Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists, and every government that supports them.
Author: George W. BushTopics: Famous, Government, Inspirational
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.
Author: Ayn RandTopics: Dangerous, Government, Legal right, Physical, Right
Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.
Author: George W. BushTopics: Civilization, Enemy, Famous, Government, Terrorism
Power comes from the muzzle of a gun, those that have the guns have the power, those that have the power dictate what type of government their shall be.
Author: Mao ZedongTopics: Famous, Government, Gun, Meaningful, Muzzle, Power
Governments don’t want a population capable of critical thinkng. They want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.
Author: George CarlinTopics: Concerned, Famous, Government, Maintaining, Obedient workers, Want
I’ve set my own rules to live by. The first one is: ‘Never believe ANYthing the government says.
Author: George CarlinTopics: Famous, Government, Rules to live by
Governments don’t want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.
Author: George CarlinTopics: Famous, Government, Inspirational, Running, Thinking, Work
Terrorism set up by reformers may be just as bad as Government terrorism, and it is often worse because it draws a certain amount of false sympathy.
Author: Mahatma GandhiTopics: Draws, Famous, Government, Meaningful, Terrorism
Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America’s problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.
Author: Norman Vincent PealeTopics: Famous, Government, Leads, Lesson, Life, Lion, Meaningful
Sierra Leone is still scarred by the war, but the people have invested a great deal of courage and hope in the truth and reconciliation process, … It is vital that the government acts on the (Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s) recommendations to ensure that history will not repeat itself.
Author: Angelina JolieTopics: Courage, Famous, Government, Great, History, Life, Still, Truth, War
Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.
Author: Benito MussoliniTopics: Experiences, Famous, Government, Meaningful, Power, Powerful
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
Author: Baruch SpinozaTopics: Crimes, Everyone, Famous, Government, Life, Meaningful
On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.
Author: Alexis de TocquevilleTopics: Famous, Fearless, Feelings, Government, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Religion, Religious experience
We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man’s support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country
Author: Alexis de TocquevilleTopics: Country, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Government, Inspirational, Life, Man, Meaningful, Support
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Author: Alexis de TocquevilleTopics: Democracy, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Government, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Taught, Tax, Teach
The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Companies, Experiences, Famous, Government, Inspirational, Internet, Invented, Meaningful, Money, Positive
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Famous, Government, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Promote, Protect, Trust
It’s time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Business, Demand, Famous, Foundation, Government, Meaningful, Positive, Responsibility
For forms of government let fools contest; that which is best administered is best
Author: Alexander PopeTopics: Admire, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Fool, Government, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful
Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy
Author: AesopTopics: Ability, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Goodness, Government, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Yourself
We always said that if the government does its job well, it can be a catalyst, an accelerator.
Author: Bill GatesTopics: Experiences, Famous, Government, Job, Meaningful
There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who plants a tree or cleans a corner of neglect. For it is the individual who himself benefits, and also protects a heritage of beauty for his children and future generations.
Author: Lady BirdTopics: Children, Environment, Famous, Government, Tree
The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party’s government.
Author: Lalu Prasad YadavTopics: Dismiss, Famous, Government, Killed, Lower Caste
“For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
Author: Lalu Prasad YadavTopics: Achievement, Government, History, Resources, Success, Survives