Famous Quotes & Sayings

The U.S. government had settled into a sort of permanent hostility.

The Venezuelan government has confidential information, properly verified, that officials of the U.S. military mission are involved in that act.

The vast majority of the people don't want the government making their programming decisions.

The various governors are meeting with troops from their states.

They are using their very impressive lobbying capabilities at all levels of government to get this done. You're going to dismantle 30 years of local government negotiation and contracting with video providers.

They have received threats. One lawyer was murdered and they do not trust the government or the Americans to protect them,

It's going to require all levels of law enforcement and government to cooperate.

Matthew Dowd

It shows the public rewards leaders. If you lead and say 'this is what we want to do,' even if you don't succeed in the short run, the public will support you. The public supports infrastructure improvements and they see the governor leading.

Jane Adams

It's been one of the strongest park acquisition and open space tools local government has.

It's the stop-loss that ticks me off, ... He kept his word, and the government doesn't have to keep its.

It's the heavy hand of government slapping me in the head.

It's more practical to wait and see what the government decides.

It is time the public sector unions stopped holding the government and the taxpayer to ransom, and got real on pensions.

It is time for Virginia to step up to the plate and protect private property rights from government abuse.

It is time for the government to be brave,

It makes the government look horrible they would do that to a family, that they would hold her hostage that way.

It makes sense to go through the government and have things set up,

Menzies Campbell

It may well be that there wasn't very much the government could do.

Mao Zedong

[Khrushchev] should get a one-ton medal.

Mao Zedong

The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.

Lynne Stewart

You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.

Lynne Stewart

You've got to learn to handle the press because god knows the government does all the time.

Lysander Spooner

It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth just what can be delivered in redemption of it, and no more. We all understand that the notes of the Astors, and Stewarts, and Vanderbilts, though issued by millions, and tens of millions, are really worth their nominal values.

Lysander Spooner

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.

Lysander Spooner

But for their right to judge of the law, and the justice of the law, juries would be no protection to an accused person, even as to matters of fact; for, if the government can dictate to a jury any law whatever, in a criminal case, it can certainly dictate to them the laws of evidence.

Lysander Spooner

One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proof that a government is not free, is that it coerces more or less persons to support it, against their will.

Lysander Spooner

The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.

Lysander Spooner

But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than organized systems of plunder and oppression.

Lysander Spooner

Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.

Lysander Spooner

All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to the government of the point at which it will meet with resistance.

Lysander Spooner

If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

Lysander Spooner

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.

Lysander Spooner

All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them.