Government Quotes
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It goes beyond mere 'acknowledgment' of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function in this context. In this instance, the government has taken sides on a matter that must be left to individual conscience.
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The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
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When you have a new government assume power, everyone, without exception, has to work for the benefit of the common good.
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Government can take your money at gunpoint; businesses have to persuade you.
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I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.
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I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody.
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Government apologists claim it’s acceptable for a government to do something that an individual would never be allowed to do.
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I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.
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Obesity is a societal issue. We have to come together with government, business, civil society, and NGOs to create solutions for this.
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Come hell or high water, there's no frigging way I'm going to let one ovary bring the government down
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Government has to be cut back like asparagus... every day... or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there's too much of it, the flower becomes a weed.
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There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government.
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A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.
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No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
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In our system of government, the president is not supposed to be above the law. He is not a king; his word is not the law.
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The country is in some trouble, because the media, which is supposed to provide a check and balance on government, has decided to stop doing that as a collective entity.
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We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.
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War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war.
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If the government can't get the economy moving again, they have a lot of fundamental problems.
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Honoured to be back as Secretary of State for Transport. In a government working hard to level up Britain, connecting communities means everything!
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It’s not about the budget; it’s about the power...So will the attack on unions succeed? I don’t know. But anyone who cares about retaining government of the people by the people should hope that it doesn’t.
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Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing government work and public enterprises.
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The vision of Christ that thou dost see is my vision's greatest enemy . Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read'st black where I read white. His seventy disciples sent against religion and government.
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Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.
