Government

Quote link. Other quotes about: words Other quotes by Norman R. Augustine.: "A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67."
Quote link. Other quotes about: house Other quotes by Prince Otto.: "Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery."
Quote link. Other quotes about: patience history men women Other quotes by William H. Borah.: "The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power history never Other quotes by Nadia Boulanger.: "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people family Other quotes by Elias Boudinot.: "Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad Other quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.: "Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
Quote link. Other quotes by Madame Chiang.: "Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human never nature society Other quotes by 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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money work need Other quotes by William Jefferson Clinton.: "You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america Other quotes by William Orville Douglas.: "The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power people father country Other quotes by David Duchovny.: "Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, Trust me, they're actually being very un-American."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money men life value Other quotes by George Farquhar.: "We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work men law Other quotes by Gerald R. Ford.: "Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men."
Quote link. Other quotes by Gerald R. Ford.: "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."
Quote link. Other quotes by William Fullbright.: "The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people man wisdom Other quotes by James Abram Garfield.: "All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe purpose making rich Other quotes by William Henry Harrison.: "I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed tot he purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience history never teach Other quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.: "What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by Herbert Clark Hoover.: "When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength people courage wisdom Other quotes by Andrew Johnson.: "Our government sprang from and was made for the people -- not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech first Other quotes by Justice Anthony Kennedy.: "The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk power time people change Other quotes by Nikita Khrushchev.: "Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time kids Other quotes by Richard Lamm.: "Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want-and their kids pay for it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first Other quotes by Rush Limbaugh.: "You know why there's a Second Amendment In case the government fails to follow the first one."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance power people Other quotes by James Madison.: "A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by James Madison.: "If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
Quote link. Other quotes about: words Other quotes by David McIntosh.: "The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live think man person change Other quotes by Henry Louis Mencken.: "The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think man wife Other quotes by Joe Moore.: "America Where a man can say what he thinks, if he isn't afraid of his wife, his boss, his customer, his neighbors, or the government."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power good Other quotes by Daniel Patrick Moynihan.: "Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good."
Quote link. Other quotes about: sin single Other quotes by Daniel Patrick Moynihan.: "The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by Ralph Nader.: "President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people."
Quote link. Other quotes about: soul Other quotes by Tom Robbins.: "Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.: "The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work something Other quotes by George Pratt Shultz.: "I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason love country Other quotes by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn.: "A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad Other quotes by Philip Dormer Stanhope.: "Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
Quote link. Other quotes by Alexander Hamilton Stephens.: "The real object of those who resorted to Secession, as well as those who sustained it, was not to overthrow the Government of the United States but to perpetuate the principles upon which it was founded. The object in quitting the Union was not to destroy, but to save the principles of the Constitution."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power freedom need teach Other quotes by J. Michael Straczynski.: "No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people conscience Other quotes by Charles W. Tobey.: "A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people."
Quote link. Other quotes about: democracy discover Other quotes by Alexander Tyler.: "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech fact Other quotes by Pierre Elliott Trudeau.: "I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong right Other quotes by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire.: "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never men need perfect Other quotes by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire.: "There has never been a perfect government, because men have passions and if they did not have passions, there would be no need for government."
Quote link. Other quotes by Bob Wells.: "For every action there is an equal and opposite government program."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power history never Other quotes by Woodrow Wilson.: "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness men life Other quotes by Virginia.: "Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness man glory peace war rule Other quotes by Lord William Beveridge.: "The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: democracy Other quotes by Henry Commager.: "If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent."
Quote link. Other quotes about: teach Other quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.: "What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad little Other quotes by MacKenzie King.: "Government, is the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government."
Quote link. Other quotes about: democracy peace Other quotes by Jeff Melvoin.: "Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is...Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by Richard M. Nixon.: "Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too."
Quote link. Other quotes about: integrity lost democracy Other quotes by Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson.: "Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live man Other quotes by H.L. Mencken.: "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe time evil Other quotes by H.L. Mencken.: "I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by H.L. Mencken.: "The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government they have only a talent for getting and holding office."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america right freedom respect rule Other quotes by Hubert Humphrey.: "Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life children need child Other quotes by Hubert Humphrey.: "It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped."
Quote link. Other quotes about: women Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson.: "I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. (On appointing 10 women to top government positions)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: peace run Other quotes by Dwight D Eisenhower.: "People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day think people peace Other quotes by Dwight D Eisenhower.: "I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe day think people peace run Other quotes by Dwight D Eisenhower.: "I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: compassion people children future child Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson.: "A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "The art of government is the organization of idolatry."
Quote link. Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
Quote link. Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "The less government we have the better."
Quote link. Other quotes about: teach Other quotes by Johann von Goethe.: "What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves."
Quote link. Other quotes by Confucius.: "He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad Other quotes by Milton Friedman.: "The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men purpose understand teach Other quotes by Louis D. Brandeis.: "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wisdom lies Other quotes by Louis D. Brandeis.: "In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people good teach Other quotes by Louis D. Brandeis.: "Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness men life Other quotes by Aristotle.: "Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."
Quote link. Other quotes about: democracy person Other quotes by Aristotle.: "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little man need Other quotes by Woody Allen.: "The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5'7, it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone."
Quote link. Other quotes by Harry S Truman.: "Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right people grow country Other quotes by Abraham Lincoln.: "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth die god people men freedom father dead Other quotes by Abraham Lincoln.: "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: discover education Other quotes by Benjamin Disraeli.: "Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery."
Quote link. Other quotes by Benjamin Disraeli.: "No government can be long secure without formidable opposition."
Quote link. Other quotes by Benjamin Disraeli.: "A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men mind Other quotes by Harry S Truman.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live fear country Other quotes by Harry S Truman.: "Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hate Other quotes by Anon..: "Don't steal. The government hates competition."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world Other quotes by Golda Meir.: "The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world-no ideals."
Quote link. Other quotes by Anon..: "Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work Other quotes by Will Rogers.: "There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
Quote link. Other quotes about: fact Other quotes by Will Rogers.: "I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world people democracy run Other quotes by Will Rogers.: "On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans america Other quotes by P. J. O'Rourke.: "Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: luck little life Other quotes by P. J. O'Rourke.: "A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work Other quotes by P. J. O'Rourke.: "The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people good Other quotes by Benjamin Franklin.: "There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."
Quote link. Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce.: "In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason friend man society Other quotes by Joseph Addison.: "Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man A splendid slave, a reasoning savage."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money Other quotes by Sam Ewig.: "The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work happiness men Other quotes by William Ellery Channing.: "The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america people Other quotes by Henry David Thoreau.: "The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way."
Quote link. Other quotes by Henry David Thoreau.: "That government is best which governs least. - from Civil Disobedience"
Quote link. Other quotes about: prison man Other quotes by Henry David Thoreau.: "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison."
Quote link. Other quotes about: brother Other quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy.: "My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd go straight."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think man living Other quotes by Francis Bacon.: "I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience never people good democracy perfect Other quotes by Alexander Hamilton.: "It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost power nature society wish fact Other quotes by Alexander Hamilton.: "Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing house Other quotes by Sir Winston Churchill.: "I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world time democracy sin perfect Other quotes by Sir Winston Churchill.: "Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lost time never rule country Other quotes by Sir Winston Churchill.: "When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first men lies Other quotes by Alexander Hamilton.: "In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason men Other quotes by Alexander Hamilton.: "Why has government been instituted at all Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint."
Quote link. Other quotes by Sir Winston Churchill.: "So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent."
Quote link. Other quotes about: democracy Other quotes by Sir Winston Churchill.: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love alone Other quotes by John Updike.: "I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone."
Quote link. Other quotes about: federal work class something house today deep teach Other quotes by Ferris Bueller's Day Off.: "Economics Teacher In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone Anyone... the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone Anyone The tariff bill The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act Which, anyone Raised or lowered... raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work Anyone Anyone know the effects It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression. Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what this is Class Anyone Anyone Anyone seen this before The Laffer Curve. Anyone know what this says It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is very controversial. Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980 Anyone Something-d-o-o economics. Voodoo economics."
Quote link. Other quotes by Theodore Roosevelt.: "The government is us we are the government, you and I."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong right Other quotes by Voltaire.: "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by Richard Milhous Nixon.: "Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too."
Quote link. Other quotes about: service Other quotes by Richard Milhous Nixon.: "The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by the Government Printing Office and mailed to you by the United States Postal Service."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power man person Other quotes by Richard Milhous Nixon.: "Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government."
Quote link. Other quotes about: law Other quotes by Richard Milhous Nixon.: "Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews."
Quote link. Other quotes by Bertrand Russell.: "There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think wise Other quotes by Frank Herbert.: "If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."
Quote link. Other quotes by Jack Anderson.: "The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human Other quotes by Edmund Burke.: "All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.: "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."
Quote link. Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.: "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth need alone Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.: "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason right people Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.: "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power god Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.: "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america power god people man respect religion law lies Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.: "Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State."
Quote link. Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.: "No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first people Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.: "The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong right people Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.: "Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right first people Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.: "The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita"
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness right truth men life Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments ar"
Quote link. Other quotes about: war Other quotes by Ronald Reagan.: "People don't start wars, governments do."
Quote link. Other quotes about: words Other quotes by Ronald Reagan.: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
Quote link. Other quotes about: wish Other quotes by Thomas Jefferson.: "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."
Quote link. Other quotes about: federal right rest belief Other quotes by Ronald Reagan.: "My belief has always been ... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind Other quotes by Ronald Reagan.: "The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away."
Quote link. Other quotes about: federal work service Other quotes by Ronald Reagan.: "The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."
Quote link. Other quotes about: brother old nothing Other quotes by Ronald Reagan.: "Shouldn't someone tag Mr Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother."
Quote link. Other quotes about: freedom love answer country Other quotes by Barry Goldwater.: "None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america people deep Other quotes by George Washington.: "The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered ... deeply ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope america man mankind Other quotes by George Washington.: "As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality."
Quote link. Other quotes about: grow Other quotes by George Washington.: "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty."
Quote link. Other quotes about: duty power right people Other quotes by George Washington.: "The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government."
Quote link. Other quotes about: brother small power live world never people rest forget country look Other quotes by Albert Einstein.: "As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to protect Jewish lives."
Quote link. Other quotes about: rule Other quotes by Edward Abbey.: "If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government --and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws."
Quote link. Other quotes by Edward Abbey.: "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets."
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