Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.

This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework that would guarantee that the men who fought felt that they themselves in...

Republics never survive, for their people do not like freedom but prefer to be led and guided and flattered and seduced into slavery by a benevolent, or not so, benevolent despot. They want to worship...

How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?

We’re not seeing civil war ignited in Iraq. We’re seeing a competent, capable Iraqi government using their security forces to calm the storm.

The government isn’t going far enough.

Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.

Let me speak plainly: The United States of America is and must remain a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. Our very unity has been strengthened by this pluralism. That’s how we began;...

It is not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work — work with us, not over us; stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can...

These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But...

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy...

One single object…[will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

The prerogative of the return of former President Taylor remains that of the Liberian people and government.

Deep down, I have come to the conclusion that the reason (children) are such a low priority to the great human institutions that seek to control this world, both secular and Christian, is that an...

Living in a democratic society means that I can express my opinion,Having a democratic government means that they don’t have to listen.

In proportion as you give the state power to do things for you, you give it power to do things to you.

The government of Iran is engaged in the systematic oppression of its citizens, including the persecution of individuals for religious, political, and other reasons. Members of the country’s religious minorities — including Sunni Muslims, Sufis,...

Business is boss, politics is servant.

the obligation of the government to protect the public health, safety, morals and general welfare.

Simon was still trying to work out how Shadowhunter government and also Shadowhunter family trees worked. They all seemed to be related to each other and it was very disturbing.

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

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there’s no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent, structural advantage. We’re averaging fifty-dollar checks in our campaign, and trying to ward...

Wananchi wakiamua kufanya kitu katika nchi yao kwa asilimia 100 serikali, na taasisi zake zote, haitaweza kuwazuia. Kwa sababu, mamlaka ya wananchi hushinda ya serikali.

Communities that can’t read and translate what the powers are putting out will always be tricked.

This is to bring home a message to the new government that they have a mandate to make government more honest, more accountable and to make it better.

I’m for a big government. A big government contraction.

Ever since 1945 the federal government has held and indeed increased its importance as the first customer of the American economy. Government spending had been the primary economic stimulant and to increase it had been...

In response to the call for help by the people, tribes and government officials in the city of Tal Afar of all its different religious and ethnic elements, and in accordance with the law, we...

When enough people realize that they are slaves but don’t have to be, revolutions happen.

democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives, as they have...

It is obvious that the government wants to continue this police state.

This is highly objectionable. The state government should have acted against these strip bars much earlier.

I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also...

The demoralization that the debase­ment of the currency left in its wake played a major role in bring­ing Adolf Hitler into power in 1933.

It was well known by everyone, including the US government, that the system as constructed invited kickbacks,

Government should not ignore the criminal aspects of what the tobacco companies were doing. In fact, a good argument can be made that, over time, tobacco company executives consciously disregarded the substantial and unjustifiable risk...

corporament” entertainment-judicial-financial-religion-petrochemical/pharmaceutical complex.

Abstain from reading comedy or other government economic statistics.

No cop on earth would call his badge a government identification document. Cops don’t work for the government. Not in their minds. They work for their department. For each other. For the whole worldwide brotherhood....

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this–that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.

It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If...

The need for open proceedings is particularly compelling where an agency of the executive branch of government seeks to persuade the judicial branch of government to withdraw life support. Decisions of this gravity, made with...

The government will not interfere in setting the price, and the price will be decided by the market.

It was about how men walk into a forest afraid because they know all the things that can happen. They might wake the noisy birds and cause chaos. But kids come into the trees and...

We can always do better and we will by making sure government respects the wishes of those who fund it ? the hardworking taxpayers,

Where there is commerce there is peace.

How many more people need to die before the US government changes course? We’ve already spent $250 billion on the war, but things in Iraq keep getting worse. Instead of approving another $72 billion for...

Our guiding principle is a combination of market adjustment and government guidance while allowing market forces in allocating resources.

What we are now witnessing in the 21st century is the fracture or complete breakdown of families, societies, and governments as a result of centuries of dehumanization that have taken a toll. More natural disasters...