Top 1200 Laws And Government Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

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

If Americans loved judicial activism, liberals wouldn't be lying about what it is. Judicial activism means making up constitutional rights in order to strike down laws the justices don't like based on their personal preferences. It's not judicial activism to strike down laws because they violate the Constitution.

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

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

Paul Ryan says he's for smaller government, and he's funded every big government idea that there is.

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

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.

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

Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Think in the name of Almighty God. We must first have a worldwide awakening of the public conscience, a spiritual revival, a moral regeneration, before there can be permanent peace and real economic recovery. To this end we do not need new laws, but a new spirit; we do not need a change of government, but a change of the human heart. There can be no peace, there will be no recovery without it. Therefore, with a change of heart, let's all make a new start.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I want to hold government accountable and help create a more efficient and effective government.

Spiritual government means a pure government that doesn't discriminate on the lines of caste, creed, or religion.

What are the sciences but maps of universal laws, and universal laws but the channels of universal power; and universal power but the outgoings of a universal mind?

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.

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.

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

Thus, experience has ever shown, that education, as well as religion, aristocracy, as well as democracy and monarchy, are, singly, totally inadequate to the business of restraining the passions of men, of preserving a steady government, and protecting the lives, liberties, and properties of the people . . . . Religion, superstition, oaths, education, laws, all give way before passions, interest, and power, which can be resisted only by passions, interest, and power.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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