Government Quotes

• Government central planning means over-riding other people's plans.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Government
  • Planning

• Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.

  

  Sidney Blumenthal
  • Government
  • Benefit
  • Clinton

• Quite often governments are one way and the people are another.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Way
  • Government

• I believe that God has endowed men with certain inalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no legislature and no majority, however great, may morally limit or destroy these; that the sole function of government is to protect life, liberty, and property, and anything more than this is usurpation and oppression.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Life
  • God
  • I Believe

• Patriotic is saying, government, you know, you're not always the solution.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Government
  • Solution
  • Patriotic

• The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.

  

  Nicholas Cresswell
  • Government
  • Slaves
  • Tricks

• England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.

  

  William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
  • Government
  • England
  • Parliament

• I'm sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong.

  

  Theresa May
  • Government
  • Blame
  • Labour

• The more money spent by government to address social injustice the greater the cries of social injustice.

  

  James Cook
  • Money
  • Government
  • Injustice

• And I know you’re not supposed to say ‘Nazi Germany,’ but I don’t care about political correctness. You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population. We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Believe
  • Supposed
  • Political Correctness

• I am a very, very strong advocate of the notion that we shouldn't equate the arts with other aspects of infrastructure. They have a unique role in any civilised society and that requires appropriate and targeted government support.

  

  George Brandis
  • Art
  • Support
  • Government

• This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Government
  • Fire
  • Feet

• There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films.

  

  Renny Harlin
  • People
  • Government
  • Finance

• In America, the people are not subjects of government, the government is subject to the people.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Government
  • Subjects

• We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Government
  • Religion
  • Planet

• We should never waive the checks on government spending that taxpayers deserve.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Government
  • Deserve
  • Taxpayers

• Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Attractive
  • Notion
  • Restriction

• No senior politician can expect to have work-life balance. I'm afraid there are some jobs for which work-life balance inevitably goes out the window. If you want work-life balance you just have to accept that you can't be a senior member of a government, or for that matter a senior member of an opposition.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Balance
  • Politician
  • Opposition

• The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Wish
  • Reason
  • Facts

• It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • Justice
  • Lying
  • Morality

• 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.

  

  Steve Forbes
  • Dream
  • Freedom
  • Government

• While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

  

  Richard Jewell
  • Giving
  • Reputation
  • Innocence

• The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.

  

  Alfred Nobel
  • Country
  • War
  • Solutions

• Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.

  

  James Cook
  • History
  • Government
  • Crisis

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