Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hawa Abdi

I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.

Hjalmar Schacht

Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.

Henry Paulson

It is the policy of the federal government to use all resources at its disposal to make our financial system stronger.

Henry Paulson

There is no way to stabilize the markets other than through government intervention.

Henry Ford

If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation.

Helen Prejean

Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.

Helen Prejean

In sorting out my feelings and beliefs, there is, however, one piece of moral ground of which I am absolutely certain: if I were to be murdered I would not want my murderer executed. I would not want my death avenged. Especially by government--which can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.

Henry Ward Beecher

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

Henry Ward Beecher

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

Henry Ward Beecher

The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.

Henry Ward Beecher

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

Henry Knox

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.

Henry Knox

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.

Henry L. Stimson

There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.

Henry Clay

All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.

Henry Clay

The imposition of taxes has its limits. There is a maximum which cannot be transcended. Suppose the citizen to be taxed by the general government to the utmost extent of his ability, or a thing as much as it can possibly bear, and the state imposes a tax at the same time, which authority is to take it?

Johann Lamont

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Joe Lhota

Government should steer, not row.

Joe Louis

When I was boxing I made five million and wound up broke, owing the government a million.

Joe Lhota

Margaret Thatcher was a 20th century visionary who understood the power of individual freedom versus the tyranny of government collectivism. She was a loyal supporter and friend of the United States and her terms as prime minister were marked as the beginning of the resurgence of the economy of the United Kingdom.

Joe Lhota

I was born a limited-government person. I've always had this streak going through me.

Joe Lhota

Government is to point you in the right direction, and not to do everything for you.

Joe Lieberman

There are extensive contacts between Saddam Hussein's government and al Qaeda.

Emma Goldman

Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have ever maintained. True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence social harmony is but a myth.... Thus the entire arsenal of governments - laws, police, soldiers, the courts, legislatures, prisons - is strenuously engaged in "harmonizing" the most antagonistic elements in society.

Emma Goldman

"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance its aim is the absolute subordination of the individual.

Emma Goldman

The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

Emma Goldman

There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.

Emma Goldman

all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.