Top government Quotes Collection - Page 89

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Image of Dave Barry
Most of the presidential candidates' economic packages involve 'tax breaks,' which is when the government, amid great fanfare, generously decides not to take quite so much of your income. In other words, these candidates are trying to buy your votes with your own money.
- Dave Barry
Collection: Government
Image of Max Lucado
Democracy is the right choice and is the greatest form of government ever created.
- Max Lucado
Collection: Government
Image of Judith Martin
Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.
- Judith Martin
Collection: Government
Image of Guy de Maupassant
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
- Guy de Maupassant
Collection: Government
Image of David O. McKay
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
Collection: Government
Image of H. P. Lovecraft
I am distinctly opposed to visibly arrogant and arbitrary extremes of government--but this is simply because I wish the safety of an artistic and intellectual civilisation to be secure, not because I have any sympathy with the coarse-grained herd who would menace the civilisation if not placated by sops.
- H. P. Lovecraft
Collection: Government
Image of H. L. Mencken
Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Government
Image of Alberto Manguel
Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.
- Alberto Manguel
Collection: Government
Image of John McCain
Excessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government.
- John McCain
Collection: Government
Image of Dave Barry
I tell people view the federal government as a source of entertainment. It's a lot easier.
- Dave Barry
Collection: Government
Image of Bob Marley
I want to say 'I Shot The Police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I Shot The Sheriff' insteadbut it's the same idea: justice.
- Bob Marley
Collection: Government
Image of Max Lucado
We just need the government to be that greenhouse that permits our faith to grow.
- Max Lucado
Collection: Government
Image of Margaret Mead
Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.
- Margaret Mead
Collection: Government
Image of John Adams
Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.
- John Adams
Collection: Government
Image of John Adams
It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present.
- John Adams
Collection: Government
Image of Max Lucado
It's up to me to promote my faith and somebody else to promote theirs. Let the government just protect our right to do so.
- Max Lucado
Collection: Government
Image of Michelle Malkin
History has shown us that 'Get Things Done' is mindless liberal code for passing ineffective legislation and expanding government for government's sake.
- Michelle Malkin
Collection: Government
Image of H. L. Mencken
The worst government is the most moral.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Government
Image of John Adams
The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great Measure, than they have it now. They may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty.
- John Adams
Collection: Government
Image of John Mellencamp
We have been lied to and terrorized by our own government, and it is time to take action.
- John Mellencamp
Collection: Government
Image of John Lydon
I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.
- John Lydon
Collection: Government
Image of James Madison
THE Constitution proposed by the convention may be considered under two general points of view. The FIRST relates to the sum or quantity of power which it vests in the government, including the restraints imposed on the States. The SECOND, to the particular structure of the government, and the distribution of this power among its branches.
- James Madison
Collection: Government
Image of James Madison
On the distinctive principles of the Government ... of the U. States, the best guides are to be found in ... The Declaration of Independence, as the fundamental Act of Union of these States.
- James Madison
Collection: Government
Image of James Madison
Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy.
- James Madison
Collection: Government
Image of James Madison
To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to the Bill containing a grant of public land to the Baptist Church at Salem Meeting House, Mississippi Territory. Having always regarded the practical distinction between Religion and Civil Government as essential to the purity of both, and as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, I could not have otherwise discharged my duty on the occasion which presented itself
- James Madison
Collection: Government
Image of James Madison
An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.
- James Madison
Collection: Government
Image of James Madison
A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.
- James Madison
Collection: Government
Image of Rachel Maddow
We`ve got [evidence] of direct Russian government connections with the [Donald] Trump campaign, during the campaign, while the Russian government was interfering in our election to try to elect Trump.
- Rachel Maddow
Collection: Government
Image of Rachel Maddow
Russian government attacked our election.
- Rachel Maddow
Collection: Government
Image of Peter McWilliams
You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.
- Peter McWilliams
Collection: Government
Image of Dave Barry
The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.
- Dave Barry
Collection: Government
Image of George McGovern
We are at a crossroads over how the federal government in Washington and state legislatures and city councils across the land allocate their financial resources. Which fork we take will say a lot about Americans and our values.
- George McGovern
Collection: Government
Image of George Mason
Whatever power may be necessary for the National Government a certain portion must necessarily be left in the States. It is impossible for one power to pervade the extreme parts of the U.S. so as to carry equal justice to them.
- George Mason
Collection: Government
Image of James Madison
The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.
- James Madison
Collection: Government
Image of James Madison
Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of frequency may be absolutely necessary for the purpose, does not appear to be susceptible of any precise calculation; and must depend on a variety of circumstances with which it may be connected. Let us consult experience, the guide that ought always to be followed, whenever it can be found.
- James Madison
Collection: Government
Image of James Madison
As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived, it seems strictly consonant to the republican theory, to recur to the same original authority, not only whenever it may be necessary to enlarge, diminish, or new-model the powers of the government, but also whenever any one of the departments may commit encroachments on the chartered authorities of the others.
- James Madison
Collection: Government
Image of James Madison
[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands.
- James Madison
Collection: Government
Image of John Quincy Adams
The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.
- John Quincy Adams
Collection: Government
Image of John Quincy Adams
The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult.
- John Quincy Adams
Collection: Government
Image of Terence McKenna
National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
- Terence McKenna
Collection: Government
Image of Dave Barry
Whatever the needs of the public are, the government responds to those needs by getting larger.
- Dave Barry
Collection: Government
Image of Nelson Mandela
During the years I lived here, the people of Alexandra ignored tribal and ethnic distinctions. Instead of being Xhosas, or Sothos, or Zulus, or Shangaans, we were Alexandrans. We were one people, and we undermined the distinctions that the apartheid government tried so hard to impose. It saddens and angers me to see the rising hatred of foreigners.
- Nelson Mandela
Collection: Government
Image of James Madison
The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.
- James Madison
Collection: Government
Image of James Madison
[Y]ou will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government.
- James Madison
Collection: Government
Image of Milo Yiannopoulos
Most of the federal government could be shut down.
- Milo Yiannopoulos
Collection: Government
Image of John Adams
Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.
- John Adams
Collection: Government
Image of Malcolm X
The government is responsible for the violence, as long as they don't stop it. And if we have to get violent to protect ourselves, then it's the government that should be charged with the crime, because we're only upholding a law that they've been unable to uphold.
- Malcolm X
Collection: Government
Image of Bill Maher
Based on every statement I’ve heard out of any Republican in the last two years, the Israelis are controlling our government.
- Bill Maher
Collection: Government
Image of Thabo Mbeki
A democratic government in South Africa is not a threat to white people.
- Thabo Mbeki
Collection: Government