940 private quotes tagged government

“Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.” — Jesse Ventura

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“The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.” — Martin Van Buren

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“Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.” — Paul Harvey

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“I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.” — Rand Paul

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“Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.” — Adrian Cronauer

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“As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.” — Andrew Jackson

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“I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.” — Andy Rooney

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“Government is essentially immoral.” — Herbert Spencer

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“When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.” — David Mamet

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“Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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“The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.” — Jerome K. Jerome

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“Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.” — David Hume

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“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.” — Andrew Jackson

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“Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.” — Newt Gingrich

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“My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.” — Kevin Mitnick

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“Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.” — Will Durant

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“The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.” — Mia Love

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“That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.” — Lysander Spooner

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“We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.” — Vladimir Putin

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“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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“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.” — Vladimir Lenin

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“So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.” — Milton Friedman

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“I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.” — Thabo Mbeki

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“The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.” — James Monroe

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