Top 1200 Limiting Government Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I don't set goals. Competing with a number in your head can be limiting, and I don't know what my capabilities are yet.

Citizens who over-rely on their government to do everything not only become dependent on their government, they end up having to do whatever the government demands. In the meantime, their initiative and self-respect are destroyed.

We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.

Anything you are exclusively attached to & identify with ends up distorting & limiting awareness.

There are a lot of possibilities I'm looking at for the future, but I'm very insistent on not limiting myself.

The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

I don't like calling it Christian rap. Titles are so limiting. It's hip-hop. I'm a rapper.

The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.

I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

I'm not the government. Nor would I EVER want to be the government - I don't know how you feel about government, but I'm not really happy about them.

'Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.

What are the Democrats, the party of Jim Matheson, telling them? The message of the Democrats is that the Amercian dream is over. 'The government is all you have. Give up your dreams, and the government will save you, the government will heal you, the government will be your hope and change.' We know here in Utah, none of that is true.

Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people.

The military works like government; is financed like government, and sports the same inherent malignancies and perverse incentives of government, down to the racial-spoils system.

People are often very limiting to themselves and can be their own worst enemy.

I don't want to be labeled as either a pansy or a heterosexual. Labeling is so self-limiting. We are what we do - not what we say we are.

Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.

The only limitations are the ones we put on ourselves and I just don't believe in limiting myself.

If the U.S. Government was a company, the deficit would be $5 trillion because they would have to account by general accepted accounting principles. But actually they encourage government spending, reckless government spending, because the government can issue Treasury bills at extremely low interest rates.

To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.

The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was to prevent any branch of the government from becoming too powerful.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

All it takes is one person in any generation to heal a family's limiting beliefs.

I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.

Do you work for the government, any government?” "I pay taxes, which means I work for the government, part of the time. Yes.

One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs.

I think that people who believe in limited government would benefit greatly by studying the logic in government itself and the role of power as a corruptive mechanism in leading finally to unlimited government.

Government of limited power need not be anemic government. Assurance that rights are secure tends to diminish fear and jealousy of strong government, and by making us feel safe to live under it makes for its better support.

We can prevent fighting by limiting weapons or finding nonviolent ways to end disputes.

Government should be of the people, by the people, for the people. What part of that do politicians and government bureaucrats not understand? Government has no right to keep secrets from the people. The people are paying for it. It's THEIR government. They have a right to know everything going on.

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too.

The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.

Our form of government depends on a mutual bond of trust between the people and their government. But people have become cynical about their government.

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free from government snooping and interference, and they put restraints on government overreaching in the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights. . . . These protections require, at a minimum, a neutral arbiter - a magistrate - standing between the government's endless desire for information and the citizens' desires for privacy.

I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.

What is so bad about big government? My indictment of big government is that it is bad because it attacks liberty, prosperity, progress, harmony, and morality. Thanks to big government, we have significantly less of all of those good things than we would if we had been able to keep government right-sized. Big government is cancerous. Like a cancer, it hurts the body and tends to spread, doing more and more harm as it grows. It is time for some radical surgery.

P.J. O'Rourke says that conservatives really hate government and every couple of years we put them in charge and then we're reminded how much we really hate government. We're not always necessarily great at the task of running government. We're the anti-government party. It actually makes some sense we're not so good at that. But you got to have basic competence in how you run the government, even in how you reduce its effectiveness in people's lives.

In the event of any action which clearly threatened Polish independence and which the Polish Government accordingly considered it vital to resist with their national forces, His Majesty's Government would feel themselves bound at once to lend the Polish Government all support in their power. They have given the Polish Government an assurance to this effect. I may add that the French Government have authorized me to make it plain that they stand in the same position in this matter.

We need an equal opportunity society, one in which government does not see its job as picking winners and losers. Where do you go if you want special favors? Government. Where do you go if you want a tax break? Government. Where do you go if you want a handout? Government. This must stop.

Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.

Have the unflinching determination to move on your path unhampered by limiting thoughts of past errors.

We are going to be a government of no surprises and no excuses; a government which keeps its commitments and a government which is straight and candid with the Australian people and that's what we intend to do.

You could be a locavore in Florida or southern California. But I tried that. It was really limiting.

It's the exact opposite of my job to take what the government says at face value and say, 'This is the truth because the government says it, and the government never lies.'

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden.

Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

Justice is the object of government, and those who support the government, must be agreed as to the justice to be executed by it, or they cannot rightfully unite in maintaining the government itself.

Even though the party or ideology of government is important, after the formation of the government it's the duty of the government either at the Centre or at the state to work impartially without any discrimination.

Film has a tendency to be limiting in some way and it shouldn't be. It's a form that can be explored and changed.

Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government.

Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.

I am leading this government but this is a three-party government and even the independents are with us. More importantly, the public is with us. So it is everyone's government.