Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
Thomas Jefferson
No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.
Thomas Jefferson
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.
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.
Thomas Jefferson
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson
The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion.
George Washington
This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
Rita Mae Brown
Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.
Steve Allen
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Richard M. Nixon
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
Hubert H. Humphrey
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
James A. Garfield
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
Wendell Phillips
Good government is good politics.
Richard J. Daley
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Milton Friedman
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Andrew Jackson
When it comes to federal spending, George W. Bush is the boy who can't say no. In each of his three years at the helm, the president has warned Congress to restrain its spending appetites, but so far nobody has pushed away from the table mainly because the president doesn't seem to mean what he says.
Tony Snow
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
Henry David Thoreau
But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.
Henry David Thoreau
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Bertrand Russell
One does not fight corruption by fighting corruption.
Daniel Kaufmann
A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.
George Grenville
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
Fred Thompson
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom Robbins
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers
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.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.
Gerhard Kocher
I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.
James I Of England
It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else.
Kwame Nkrumah
I think the inherent right of the Government to lie to save itself when facing a nuclear disaster is basic.
Arthur Sylvester
She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.
Simon Hoggart
Indeed, in a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.
Dr. John Marshall
Government [is] operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.
Gerry Spence
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
Oliver Cromwell
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H. L. Mencken
In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
Thich Nhat Hanh
If someone dares question the Administration's leadership or integrity, they drape a flag over the latest mess and cry 'treason!'. Ironically and unfortunately, this bears a striking resemblance to the way I clean my house.
Jules Carlysle
Official aid is more likely to retard development than to promote it.
Peter Bauer
Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
Fred Woodworth
Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government and I will lead it as party of government.
Tony Blair
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
John Maynard Keynes
The less government we have the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
Henry Clay
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
P. J. O'Rourke
That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.
Lysander Spooner
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
Thomas Sowell
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].
J. William Fulbright
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.
H. L. Mencken
We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.
Kofi Annan
Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.
Martin L. Gross
Here was this vast machinery of government and they didn't know how it ran, where you put in the gas, where you put in the oil, where you turn the throttle.
Gen Maxwell D. Taylor
When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
Marquis De Lafayette
Thus I have maintained by English history, that in proportion as the press has been free, English government has been secure.
Thomas Erskine
It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.
Robert Purvis
Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by.
Eric Johnston
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
Eugene J. Mccarthy
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.
Benjamin Disraeli
A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
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.
Thomas Jefferson
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
Thomas Jefferson
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! It is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.
George Washington
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin Franklin
All government - indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
Ronald Reagan
I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.
Ronald Reagan
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan
One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.
Ronald Reagan
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Albert Camus
Why an arbitrary figure of 30 days? The US Government has long accepted it only takes one day to be exposed to Agent Orange.
John Atkinson
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
Wendell Phillips
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
John Adams
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
James Madison
The government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian religion.
John Adams
Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?
Richard J. Daley
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
Harry S Truman
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
Alexander Hamilton
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
Milton Friedman
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
Milton Friedman
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
Andrew Jackson
You don't change government for those reasons.
Ronda Storms
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Bertrand Russell
I can't make any comment until I see what the government has on him.
David Lindsey
Citizens Against Government Waste would probably say that it would be a waste to waste our taxpayer money on a deputy for waste.
Jen Bluestein
If we have a group of people who are influencing the decisions of government, how are they different?
Rocky Chavez
I believe that changing government power is the true reform.
Ichiro Ozawa
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.
Henry David Thoreau
Believe that our government has an obligation to take care of its people.
Charlie Rangel
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
Bertrand Russell
The bottom line is that the local government has the ultimate responsibility to its citizen's children.
Mark Saunders
Any Israeli government must cooperate with us and must not ignore the Palestinian side.
Mahmud Abbas
This emergency government in Iron County is now a joke. I am glad we have not had an emergency. We could not handle it.
Jim Clement
The bottom line is, we're in a place that actually has a rule of law. The British government is mandated to take action.
Clive Stafford Smith
I guess it would be called The Bahamas National Energy Agency (NEA), ... a quasi government agency just as Bahamasair is.
Leslie Miller
This government plays the card of confrontation in order to make people forget its arrogance and incompetence.
Segolene Royal
This is not a government contract. This is something we're just doing ourselves.
Lance Cottrell
Having him back in Ecuador will cause a lot of noise, but it will not destabilize the government.
Carlos Larreategui
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
H. L. Mencken
This guy is a natural. He was born to be a great government executive. He makes things happen.
Michael Barnes
We still have to function here. State government still moves on. This consolidation will bring a lot of savings.
Sean Dilweg
It's possible for government to take your property tomorrow, and you won't be able to do a thing about it.
Sarah Winders
He is highly unpopular, ... because people in our country blame the military for destabilizing civilian government.
Benazir Bhutto
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
Clement Atlee
If you are foolish enough to establish a link to an agent of the Chinese government then the only person hurt by that would be you.
Brian Clarke
I'm tired of waiting for this government to wait for everybody else before they decide it's in their best interest.
Kevin Deveaux
We firmly support the rule of law and constitutional government. Violence should be avoided.
Janelle Hironimus
It's puzzling that any government would fight it rather than make an agreement.
Mark Emery
I hope that whatever is sent by the central government reaches its destination.
Vincent Tius
We do not think they (the British government) are doing enough. All the government would say is that they were not prepared to respond to our legal argument.
Louise Christian
The Commission announces elections. Whether to postpone it or not, is not the responsibility of the government.
Tejmuni Bajracharya
The reform of government needs to continue.
Jim Nussle
We're asking Americans to tighten their belts; by golly, the federal government should, too.
Louie Gohmert
The government gave us a waiver form. Mr. Libby signed the waiver form and gave it back. I didn't talk to anyone after that.
Joseph Tate
Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.
Grover Cleveland
This is not about being liberal. This is not about being conservative. This is about making sure our government works for all Americans.
Francine Busby
You may not like this man. You may hate his guts. But you can't convict him on the indictment the government brought to this court.
David Adler
In which democratic country does the government, on the eve of an election, rewrite the rules?
Piero Fassino
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
William Orville Douglas
This will force government to act.
Wellington Chibebe
This government will not increase the salaries. If you do that all you will get is an increase in ghost gangs.
Patrick Manning
It is fully unacceptable for the government of Serbia that a man who should be tried for war crimes can be elected for any political function.
Srdjan Djuric
Obesity is high in this country for adults and for children, and it has to do with diet and the choice of food. Physicians must confront obesity where they can and not have the weight of government on them as they do it.
Terry Bennett
I wish you would ask the government what the reason was.
Ashraf Nubani
They felt that it would release the stranglehold that partisanship had on government.
Sherry Bebitch Jeffe
So far, conditions in the field are very good. All those GAM members that have been released from prison have been granted amnesty by the government.
Sofyan Djalil
The Danish government should do a lot of things. The government should apologize.
Amr Khaled
Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.
Gerald F. Lieberman
The government must demonstrate its respect for freedom of expression and assembly, which are essential at this time of intense debate about the country's political future.
Gerald Staberock
The government is definitely a good ally to have in penetrating the China market.
Wilvin Chee
Much of our argument is likely to be with the U.S. government, rather than the Iranian government.
Terry Anderson
The next move is up to the government. We'll respond when hear from the government.
Bob Chlopak
They asked us to go back to the government and seek better conditions. We will not resume until we have a satisfactory set of operating conditions agreed with the government.
Gerald Bourke
Let reason be opposed to reason, and argument to argument, and every good government will be safe.
Thomas Erskine
The government contends it rises to the level of domestic terrorism. We say it?s free speech.
Andrea Lindsay
We still have a city manager form of government, ... While we can certainly suggest things to the manager, it is for the city manager to suggest things to commissioners.
Dennis Murray
You could make a very good case for this being the most important coin ever produced by the government.
Mark Borckardt
There is not one student in this room that would not have stayed. We could not believe our government would do so little.
Gabriel Pendas
The government has the authority to adjust the tariffs in an emergency situation, but no determination has been made yet.
Tony Fratto
I believed that the government would protect the children being abused. I believed they would act quickly. I was wrong.
Justin Berry
It is clearly evident that our government was aware of the presence of chemical weapons in Iraq since at least 1986.
Terry Everett
If a government safety [inspection] is being carried out, they're expected to follow that handbook, and if there are discrepancies, that's not good and we're not pleased about it.
Brian Smiley
An effective battle against obesity should be fought with personal responsibility in health care, not by government decree.
Rep. David Frizzell
I can only pray that they won't meet at Government House.
Ajiravid Subarnbhesaj
As to supporting his government, I fought for 10 years to put this Government in place. I will continue to support even more now that I?m out of the Cabinet.
David Mwiraria
The longer the jury is out the worse it is for the defense. If the government doesn't have the evidence then the jury can come to a decision relatively quickly.
Ira Sorkin
In those conversations, the two discussed the killing of Munir as he continued to sharply criticized the government and the military.
Cicut Sutiarso
Now we have a new government, so our motive to produce non-alcoholic beer becomes stronger.
Nadim Khoury
I don't want to downplay what Cordiano and those guys did ... but at no time in the discussions did Ford say we can't (cut further) because of this (deal) with the government.
Buzz Hargrove
The government is now still mapping the conditions of the hospitals concerned.
Nyoman Kandun
The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We have yet to talk with the government. And I don't think the government has made a decision on accelerating repayment of its debts.
Stephen Schwartz
For the German government not to take part [in a rescue] could cause the downfall of Schroeder.
Adrian Pilz
We're going through the facts with the government. I don't think there's a crime here. Nothing's decided.
Mark Tuohey
We believe we will see improvement in the ethics and integrity of city government.
Richard M. Daley
This is a very, very significant win for the government. As chief accounting officer, he knows where the financial skeletons are buried.
Philip Hilder
Therefore, the government will launch an operation to enforce the law against the practice.
Industry Minister Fahmi Idris
The posters are depicting government in a negative light and this comes only a few days to the polling day.
Robert Kabushenga
They should not be compromised just so the Government can trumpet about police numbers.
Simon Power
What else can you name that has gone up that much? Probably not even gasoline. You have to ask why. The only conclusion I come to is, the federal government has grown bigger and bigger and has taken on more and more of the states' job. Government has become everything to everybody, and it was never meant to be.
Ralph Mcgill
We are giving the government a very strong reason to sit down with the teachers and solve this dispute.
Jim Sinclair
This is part of a trend where government is adopting a lot of the technology software companies already have.
Rob Rachwald
We will include the fact that we consider that to be the likely target age in our agreement on a coalition government.
Franz Muentefering
The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.
Robert Heilbroner
The government decided that confrontation was not a good solution, and to let it evolve politically.
Jehangir Karamat
What is most important is to continue pressure on the Sudanese government.
Bernard Bot
I blame the government. We're more dependent on foreign oil than we ever were and I blame (President) Bush for that.
Wayne Parker
We are accused by the government of being its regular critics. However, we have left bias behind and conducted our analysis based on facts and numbers.
Ammar Siamwalla
The illusion is that help (from the federal government) will be there minutes later, which is really not the case.
Irwin Redlener
The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.
Joseph Sobran
There is nothing contained in this indictment that the U.S. government did not have.
Stanley Cohen
We have the necessity of government intervention to ensure the free exchange of ideas.
Craig Fields
For us it is not to do with the U.N. capacity, it has to do with attitude toward the Zimbabwe government.
George Charamba
A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.
James Q. Wilson
We're in dialogue with with the government of Chad, consortium members and other relevant parties.
Susan Reeves
It shows that the government is really determined.
Tony Cannavino
The government will not have the funds to step in and take care of everyone.
Geordie Crossan
No part of our company is owned by the Venezuelan government, and any reference to that is false.
Michelle Shafer
I trust my government but I can't bear to sit back and watch this trial any longer.
John Vigiano
There is no local government infrastructure, no law enforcement or judicial authorities in Somalia.
Pottengal Mukundan
More and more government entities hammer out deals in secret and announce them once every last detail is decided.
Bill Lueders
Why is this government so insensitive to the concerns of the middle-class people?
Gilles Duceppe
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