Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.
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.
Instead of helping a lucky few to escape disadvantage, a Labour government will aim to abolish poverty completely and create a more equal society, raising the living standards and well-being of all.
Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn’t have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?
No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
I want people to feel like they have access to Congress, that they have access to government.
The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government.
Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders – companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.
In many… cases, of course, the Arab Spring has brought about instability rather than greater stability. And rather than bringing about government that is more representative and more responsive to the people, you’re seeing, frankly, the opposite, or you’re seeing all-out war.
I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
The Chinese government learnt how to manage the Internet from Western developed countries; we have not learnt enough yet.
I was deposed by a coup d’etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
We believe, as our founders did, that ‘the pursuit of happiness’ depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.
Racism is not first and foremost a skin problem. It is a sin problem. See, when you believe that racism is a skin problem, you can take three hundred years of slavery, court decisions, marches, and the federal government involvement and still not get it fixed right.
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
To meet someone who wants to fight to just tell the truth about what’s happening in government… this is a real life superhero right here.
Majority rule only works if you’re also considering individual rights. Because you can’t have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
Rebellion has its roots in government’s indifference and incompetence.
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren’t about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy?
While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government’s letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
As I prepare to take over the reins of your government, I ask each of you to join me in the process of governing.
There are so many people and organisations that work quietly and diligently for the poor and the disadvantaged. We should also work with unity and purpose to ensure that the benefits of government policies reach all sections of society.
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
For about 125 years, give or take, the Canadian government has acted extremely badly – even in a way which should be called evil – breaking treaties, breaking agreements.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Government ‘help’ to business is just as disastrous as government persecution… the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
It is important for people to be able to read all sides of every question; for a feeling of national unity does not come from one-sided or inadequate information, but from a sense of freedom impartially secured and of opportunity equalized by a just government.
A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
The decision to have an abortion is a deeply personal decision between a woman, her family, her doctor, her God; not her government, and not the public at large.
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt – in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure – to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.
The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can’t eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as ‘progress’, doesn’t spread.
Government has to be cut back like asparagus… every day… or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there’s too much of it, the flower becomes a weed.
People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can’t live within its income.
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.
I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
Sadly, the system in this country is rigged in favor of wealthy elites who have purchased tremendous influence in our government.
When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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.
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.
Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.
