Top 1200 Government Shutdown Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

Without computers, the government would be unable to function at the level of effectiveness and efficiency that we have come to expect. . . . Today's government uses computers which are capable of cranking out millions of documents per day without any regard whatsoever for their content, thereby freeing government employees for more important responsibilities, such as not answering their phones.

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government.

Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

The Modi government believes that the industrialist, the capitalist, has to pay for the assets of the government which belong to the people of India.

You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

It is correct that securing the border is a government function, but when the government fails, it has a specific and significant impact on individual landowners.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

If the Tea Party gets its way, there will be less government - which is great for the elites. They don't need the government.

If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

We don't want the government to have anything we don't have, because government isn't 'We The People' anymore.

While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.

All the time, you take a look at what government rules are, so you can minimize the impact of government regulations. That's just smart business.

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.

The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.

Americans, both politicians and voters, may have become corrupted by big government beyond redemption. A virtuous government requires a virtuous people. A frugal government requires a self-reliant people. A free country requires people who value liberty more than money.

The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.

Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.

The best government is not the one that you can serve in the longest, but the government that's closest to the people.

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.

Obama believes in a big central government, where the federal government controls everything in our lives. That's socialism.

The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.

A limited government is much more likely to be a competent government.

Freedom for the government is enslavement for the people. When the government is free the people are enslaved. When the government is contained then the people are free.

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

Government shutdowns do not actually become what the term implies. Two-thirds of the government cannot shut down. We're only talking about the third of government that's discretionary spending, and even at that, nobody loses their jobs, and nobody loses their Thanksgiving turkey. The whole thing has resulted from the Republican Party thinking they bought the farm back in 1995.

I mean, look, the government is not a startup obviously. But projects to change government I think are best thought of as startups.

Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity.

I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with negroes. I am for it without negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space

The most encouraging trend of our time is the widespread loss of faith in government. No longer do people look to the government as the great problem solver, economic planner, social unifier, or cultural czar. The government is more likely to be seen for what it is, a haven for grafters, liars, and would-be tyrants. Americans, like the Russians, no longer believe anything until it is officially denied.

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

I believe that the role of government is for the government to protect the God-given rights we have and to ensure that we live as free as possible.

No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

'Hispanic' was the term adopted by the government - by the Nixon government in particular - and that made the community feel it was being branded.

We're not free because other people are nice, maybe other people aren't nice that day. We're free because we expect the institutions of government to work impersonally. That we expect people in government to understand they don't work for the president or the prime minister, they work for the government. And the government is always there.

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.

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

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.

Government lawyers have a duty to disclose evidence of wrongdoing in the government.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.

As long as I am running this Government I will run the Government as I see fit... as I believe in, based on my philosophy.

It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

In America, we have a government that some people believe is too big and overbearing, yet, when it comes to guns, we might as well have no government at all.

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

People who don't believe in government are likely to defy our government.

In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.

I'm not in favor of no government. You do need a government. But by doing so many things that the government has no business doing, it cannot do those things which it alone can do well. There's no other institution in my opinion that can provide us with protection of our life and liberty. However, the government performs that basic function poorly today, precisely because it is devoting too much of its efforts and spending too much of our income on things which are harmful. So I have no doubt that that's the major single problem we face.

The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.