Government Quotes
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We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others.
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To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.
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Christianity is permitted under China's constitution, and the government has long supported a network of official Christian churches.
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One of Obama’s greatest failures will be his legacy of making millions completely dependent on government handouts, not work....So sad.
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Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.
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Over the year,s the government launched more than one 'war on corruption,' and they all failed. Why? Because they all started from the bottom up.
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...The peculiarity about him is that he has what is essentially a boy's mind. What he thinks he says at once, says aloud. It is his distinguishing characteristic, and I don't know as he will ever outgrow it. But with it he has great qualities which make him an invaluable public servant--inflexible honesty, absolute fearlessness, and devotion to good government which amounts to religion. We must let him work his way, for nobody can induce him to change it
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The natural state of our economy is prosperity. Freedom guarantees that. The only force capable of undermining it is government.
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As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.
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Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.
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There is a massive economic opportunity out there to be taken without waiting for government legislation.
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Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government.
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[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be found.
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When we're talking about the "American response" to any disaster, it's not just a government response, an official response, it's a popular response.
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The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.
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I find it hilarious that if we lie to the government, it's a crime. But if they lie to us its politics.
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Because of my politics, people think I'm anti-American. But I was quite the reverse. What I don't like about the United States is when the government acts like an old, imperial 18th- or 19th-century European power.
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Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any constituted authority. Before such an organization had begun to be considered possible and desirable by a whole class of thinkers, so as to be taken as the aim of a movement (which has now become one of the most important factors in modern social warfare), the word "anarchy" was used universally in the sense of disorder and confusion, and it is still adopted in that sense by the ignorant and by adversaries interested in distorting the truth.
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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Throughout history, the really fundamental changes in societies have come about not from the dictates of governments and the results of battles, but through vast numbers of people changing their minds, sometimes only a little bit.
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The collapse of communism as an ideology and of the Soviet Union as a world power has made possible an unprecedented internationalization of current American values, among them free choice in the consumer marketplace, reduced government economic regulation and an emphasis on individual self-fulfillment rather than the social good, all promoted by an internationalized mass media and consumer culture.
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Public instruction should be the first object of government.
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We would like very much that (Abbas) will have the capability of appointing a government that goes in the direction that President Mubarak and the EU would like to go.
