Quotes about government
government usa iraq
An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein - and the replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned with the United States would put America more wholly in charge of the region than any power since the Ottomans, or maybe even the Romans. David Frum
government years issues
I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.
government self order
The Great Society went wrong for three major reasons. First, the self-organization the Johnson administration promoted turned out to be not the pooling of family and community resources into shops and businesses, but political pressure for government handouts. Second, the Great Society failed to anticipate the perverse side-effects of handing money out to people who have done nothing to earn it. Third, while the Great Society was showering money on the poor, the Supreme Court was with childlike glee smashing to bits traditional methods of maintaining law and order.
government victim competing
If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?
government citizens arms
Only a government that does not trust its citizens would refuse them the right to bear arms. Curt Weldon
government entrepreneur helping
I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses. Curt Schilling
government afar made
There is good government when those who are near are made happy, and when those who are afar are attracted. Confucius
government law rights
Nothing is more deceptive or more dangerous than the pretence of a desire to simplify government. The simplest governments are despotisms; the next simplest, limited monarchies; but all republics, all governments of law, must impose numerous limitations and qualifications of authority, and give many positive and many qualified rights. Daniel Webster
government people inattention
Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.
government law giving
Let us hold fast the great truth, that communities are responsible, as well as individuals; that no government is respectable which is not just. Without unspotted purity of public faith, without sacred public principle, fidelity, and honor, no machinery of laws, can give dignity to political society.
government hands law
The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in a few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless.
government law political
A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.
government law political
It would seem, then, to be the part of political wisdom to found government on property; and to establish such distribution of property, by the laws which regulate its transmission and alienation, as to interest the great majority of society in the protection of the government.
government people evil
The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.
government law people
The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.
government helping well-being
Government has the power to help improve well-being David Cameron
government feet impact
I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day. Dave Eggers
government addiction people
Democrats have always wanted to grow government with revenues from our society's producers. They aren't sincere about reducing the deficit, because they will not abandon their addiction to spending other people's money. David Limbaugh
government income pay
It's one thing to maintain that upper-income earners should pay higher tax rates because they are better able to shoulder the burden for essential government services. But it's constitutional blasphemy to claim that the tax code should be used as a weapon against the wealthy and that the state should be the tyrannical arbiter of how income is distributed.
government doors feet
If Republican legislators succumb to their political addiction to compromise for the sake of getting something passed, no matter how odious, they'll be laying out the red carpet of inevitability for socialized care. Once government gets its foot in the door, more government control is unavoidable.
government periods alarmists
Call me an alarmist, but we are witnessing the beginning of the most frightening period of government tyranny in our nation's history.
government care reform
The government is a heartbeat away from nationalizing health care based on deliberate misinformation about the nation's uninsured and despite the 100 percent failure rate of such fantastic reforms elsewhere on the globe.
government boards income
When the coercive power of government is used to equalize incomes, it guarantees less prosperity across the board and spreads the misery, which is one of the many reasons Marxism and socialism have failed everywhere they've tried.
government using-words morality
Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth. David Gergen
government ideas voice
I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will take care of us all, and everything belongs to the government. It is wrong! David O. McKay
government needs determine
It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs. David Mamet
government criminals arms
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.
government liberty firsts
We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.
government royal empires
Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire. Amos Bronson Alcott
government quality agendas
Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life. Alveda King
government prejudice
All prejudices are equally fatal to good government. Anthony Eden
government media accountability
Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become. Amy Goodman
government doe hell
Who knows what the hell a government is or what the hell a government does. Anne Rice