940 private quotes tagged government

“There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.” — Ron Paul

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“When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.” — Marquis de Lafayette

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“Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.” — Richard Lamm

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“What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.” — Thomas Sowell

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“A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.” — Rick Santelli

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“We're adults. We're the ones who should teach the kids what's good to eat. I don't think the government should ever regulate what we eat at home, but we're feeding them in school with tax dollars. Quite frankly, if my tax dollars are being spent to feed kids, I'd rather feed them better food.” — Tom Colicchio

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“Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.” — Jeremy Rifkin

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“World War II was the last government program that really worked.” — George Will

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“The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.” — Tom Coburn

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“Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.” — Stephen Harper

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“I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.” — Tony Campolo

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“If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.” — Ron Paul

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“Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.” — John Podhoretz

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“Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.” — Gouverneur Morris

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“I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.” — Joe Biden

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“The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.” — John Adams

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“When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.” — Ron Paul

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“Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.” — Benito Mussolini

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“Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.” — Dalton Trumbo

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“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.” — Gerald R. Ford

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“Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.” — Andrew Jackson

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“Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.” — Douglas MacArthur

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“Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.” — Erykah Badu

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“The happiness of society is the end of government.” — John Adams

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