940 private quotes tagged government

“Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.” — Louis D. Brandeis

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“You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.” — Chris Rock

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“Governments never learn. Only people learn.” — Milton Friedman

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“I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.” — Rick Warren

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“The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.” — Andrew Jackson

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“It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.” — Tom Stoppard

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“I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.” — Brian Mulroney

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“The essence of good government is trust.” — Kathleen Sebelius

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“For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.” — Vince Cable

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“Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.” — Norman Cousins

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“Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.” — Lily Tomlin

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“People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.” — Robert Half

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“The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.” — Sam Houston

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“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” — Denis Diderot

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“The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.” — Milton Friedman

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“Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.” — Milton Friedman

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“In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.” — Russell Means

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“I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.” — Mikhail Baryshnikov

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“I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.” — Jane Fonda

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“I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.” — George W. Bush

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“We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.” — Bill Gates

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“Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.” — George W. Bush

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“I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.” — John Maynard Keynes

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