Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Hamilton

It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Maybe next year the government might impose some immigration rules on the academy. Two Mexicans in a row is suspicious. [On Mexican immigrants in the US] I hope they can be treated with respect of the ones who came before and built this incredible immigrant nation.

Alberto Gonzales

There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection.

Alberto Manguel

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

Albert Einstein

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

Albert Einstein

I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic protection of the individual appeared to me always as the important communal aims of the state. Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.

Algernon Sidney

If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced, the ends of government are accomplished . . .

Alfred North Whitehead

Governments are best classified by considering who are the "somebodies" they are in fact endeavoring to satisfy.

Alexander Berkman

Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.

Aldo Leopold

Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs .

Aldous Huxley

My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism .

Albert Einstein

Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations.

Albert Einstein

A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive.

Albert Einstein

Selection [of UN delegates] by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The moral authority of the UN would be considerable enhanced if the delegates were elected directly by the people. Were they responsible to an electorate, they would have much more freedom to follow their consciences.

We don't like the government to tell us what to do.

We are no pariah state. This government will prove this.

Abigail Adams

The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.

Abigail Adams

The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.

Aberjhani

The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation represents both phenomenal political symbolism and a victory of faith in democracy that should not be lost on any American.

Aaron Lewis

I've never needed government to hold my hand.

Abbas Kiarostami

The Iranian government as a whole has no relationship with my films. They're not particularly interested, perhaps this kind of cinema is not very interesting to them.

James Bovard

Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government.

Sunil Mittal

Government must make spectrum free. There should be free network, but it is not happening.

Steven Hatfill

I was a guy who trusted the government. Now, I don't trust a damn thing they do.

Tom Colicchio

So you can say, 'Get Big Government out of here, and don't tell me what to eat,' but when kids are going to school, and they're being fed junk, we're pretty much telling them what to eat, and we're telling them junk is OK.

Tom Savini

Tell everyone to vote: Tom Savini for Governor on 'The Walking Dead'!

Todd Park

We, as citizens, are the true owners of government.

Todd Park

It turns out that in the federal government, there are a lot of innovators.

Tony Tan

I would be able to provide a different perspective and act independently of the Government in the decisions that have to be made by the President.

Tom Daschle

We must govern from the middle, or we will not be able to govern at all.

When are the two parties, the government and the (rebels), going to wake up? They are the parties that can put an end to violence.