3 December 2020 Thomas Paine The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
3 December 2020 William J. Brennan, Jr. The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to ‘create’ rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
3 December 2020 Stephen Harper I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.
3 December 2020 Milton Friedman The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
3 December 2020 Daniel Webster The people’s government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
3 December 2020 Chief Joseph I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.
3 December 2020 Lucy Powell What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.
3 December 2020 Paul Tsongas Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
3 December 2020 John Bolton Well, I’m a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.
3 December 2020 Marco Rubio Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.
3 December 2020 Chris Christie Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.
3 December 2020 Stephen Harper The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.
3 December 2020 James Madison To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
3 December 2020 Zachary Quinto We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.
3 December 2020 Ron Paul I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early ’60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.
3 December 2020 Andrew Jackson Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
3 December 2020 Herbert Hoover When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
3 December 2020 Oliver Cromwell 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.
3 December 2020 Woodrow Wilson The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Mayhew But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.
3 December 2020 Alveda King Let’s be honest about this the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.
3 December 2020 J. C. Watts The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
3 December 2020 Barbara Jordan A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.
3 December 2020 Harry Browne Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
3 December 2020 Colin Powell We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.
3 December 2020 Chinua Achebe The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
3 December 2020 Tony Campolo I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.
3 December 2020 Chris Christie Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That’s what I was committed to doing.
