Top 1200 Government Education Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.

I'm against government giving money to artists, but I'm not against artists taking money. Just like I don't have a moral problem with people taking healthcare from the government, but I don't think government should give it.

You all have opportunities and skills and education that so many folks who came before you never could have dreamed of. So just imagine the kind of impact that you're going to make. Imagine how you can inspire those around you to reach higher and complete their own education.

We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. The broad education will, therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated experience of social living. If we are not careful, our colleges will produce a group of close-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists, consumed with immoral acts. Be careful, brethren! Be careful, teachers!

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

If the government decides to become a tyrannical government, our guns are to protect us against that.

Madison understood that if you want to protect rights from government abuse, you would be wise not to give government the power in the first place that can be used to abuse rights. That is a lesson we have forgotten. As we have asked government to do more and more for us, we have forgotten that a government big enough to give us everything we want will be powerful enough to take everything we have.

the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.

The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.

It's the government's job to encourage entrepreneurialism and investment. Most importantly, it's the government's duty to inspire confidence.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.

The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government.

I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth.

As a government watchdog, I'm always looking for ways to make government smaller, more efficient, and fairer.

We want a national emissions trading scheme, the Government does not and has rejected one for years. We want to boost the mandatory renewable energies target, the Government has failed to do that. We want a national demand side management strategy for the country to reduce electricity consumption and the Government, up until now, has done very little on that score.

When Conservatives crusade against government while they are trying to be appointed to head the government, I think that's weird!

The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending.

We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.

Therefore, teaching, talk and tale, however lucid or fascinating, effect nothing until self-activity be set up; that is, self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

Ours is a fully democratic government, which in our language we call a people's government.

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.

Trust me, I've been to countries where there's no government. And our government's pretty damned good.

I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult.

I want to work closely with the government but it doesn't mean I become so weak and just toe the government line.

I'm always just happy to see when models are working hard, doing well, and really, above all else, doing good things. I love when they work for charities or inspire education. Look at Karlie Kloss promoting education - that's wonderful.

I find it strange that our children, teenagers are kept captive listening in classrooms. Earlier education was for career and livelihood. Now, it has to rise to solve the crisis facing the earth and nations have to pay attention to the education of children to save this planet.

Forms of government matter, in my opinion. It matters how -- the nature of the government in which people live.

Education cannot be a matter of charity, Education has to be a matter of Right.

Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.

If my parents didn't push me and didn't support education, I probably wouldn't be here today.... Regardless of whatever they went through and how they may have been treated, they felt education was important. So, it's easier when you have the parents who support it, rather than those who don't.

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

The government is not doing anything to help the country to heal. The government is just making cosmetic changes.

The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.

Much worse than the unavoidable inefficiencies of large government is the failure to fund the government we need.

In any war, mistakes happen on the ground; this is not the policy of the government. We are a government that functions according to laws.

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.

We have a government-to-government relationship with tribes, and they should have that opportunity to weigh in on important decisions that affect them.

Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve.

If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.

A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.

Education is far less about a set of facts than a way of thinking, than learning how to critically think. And therefore, what I always think should be the basis of education is not answers but questions.

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

One of the reasons that I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over.

Ambitious and thought-provoking, Higher Education in America represents an informed and informative addition to ongoing debates at the national, state, and institutional levels about the aims higher education ought to aspire to and how best to achieve them.

The career politicians in Washington had transformed a government "for the people" into a government for themselves and for special interests.

One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.

Now we are in the second term of the government of a united nation and the government has done very well. One thing they have done, one thing people could not be blind to, was the achievement this government has made in giving human beings dignity, which they did not enjoy before. They now have dignity.

The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More money is now paid for the education of a part than would be paid for that of the whole if systematically arranged.

American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.

You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

Choosing education is a very good decision, not only good for the student, but also for our country. The United States was the first nation in history to recognize that public education for every citizen, regardless of class or station, was vital to its future . . .

I can't sit here and be a hypocrite and say I'm for limited government, but I think the government should decide what women do with their bodies.

All this anti-Christian rhetoric that you see coming from the government, all this anti-Christian push, is not really an attack on Christianity. It's an effort to make you realize that God is your government. Your government is God.

A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.