When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe...

If the government really wanted to stimulate the economy, it should distribute Viagra and coffee.

I may be Anti-Big Government, but only because I am Pro-Human.

It may sound reactionary, I know. But we can all feel it. We’ve changed the way we think of ourselves as citizens. We don’t think of ourselves as citizens in the old sense of being...

If you require force to promote your ideal, there is something wrong with your ideal.

What is life without death? That’s like asking what is peanut butter without jelly? Or a baseball game on TV and changing the channel? Or government without taxes? Actually, I like those last two.

When the government’s boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence

I beg you, put an end to the occupation. I beg the Italian government and the Italian people to put pressure on the government to pull out.

In the eleven months preceding the outbreak of World War II, 211 treaties of peace were signed. Were these treaties of peace written on paper, or were they written on the hearts of men? And...

Anything we do should be in the spirit of transparency and open government.

Government cannot be religious and self-assertive at the same time. Religious experience needs a spontaneity which laws inevitably suppress. And you cannot govern without laws. Your laws eventually must replace morality, replace conscience, replace even...

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.

The government cannot devise and enforce it’s own ratings systems. For a variety of First Amendment reasons it just can’t be done, … Indeed, the FTC report clearly states there are serious First Amendment problems.

I want to extend on behalf of the Chinese government and the Chinese people our deepest sympathy to the American government and people for the human loss and property loss inflicted by Hurricane Katrina,

A government-made hurricane hit Darfur … using these Janjaweed militias, … And the human debris has washed up on the shores of Chad.

By today’s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum. His actual impact on their personal lives was trivial. He...

The Illinois Conference of Churches regards the granting of an exemption to any government entity for expedient purposes of economic development to be a gross violation of the religious freedom secured by this nation’s laws...

The mistake our politicians so often make with these industry leaders is in thinking they are interested in, or respectful of, the power of government. All they want is to keep stealing. If you can...

He concluded that governments were like wars: the reasons and the forces might change, but it was still the same dying over the same soil.

The bottom line is this — when it comes to helping Australians on the ground, the Australian government has failed miserably to persuade its closest friend and ally, the United States government, to allow Australian...

Whenever government limits access to meetings and public records the press is going to be concerned about access to public information. We only miss our rights when they are taken away from us.

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.

Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

The government doesn’t save enough, it borrows too much and it doesn’t invest enough in the next generation. It’s like what parents are trying to get their kids not to do, but if they look...

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

The fact that BOJ acted in the face of resistance from certain government officials and politicians means the market must now focus its attention on the central bank rather than the government.

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you.

Since man always remains free and since his freedom is always fragile, the kingdom of good will never be definitively established in this world. Anyone who promises the better world that is guaranteed to last...

The U.S. government needs to learn from successful private businesses that run an effective and efficient operation in serving their customers and outwitting their competitors.

Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new...

We give military aid to the Indonesian government, we give economic aid through international monetary organizations to Indonesia. We should be prepared to pull all of that.

As mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope...

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it’s not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.

This is part of an ongoing series of consultations we have had with the Russian government and we have a very broad and deep and important agenda, … I am sure the topic of Bosnia...

We expect to see the commercial systems division posting improved results going forward, whilst the Government Systems divisions continues to defy skeptics.

It’s another stimulus the government wants to adopt to invigorate the market by bolstering trading in the long term.

[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges on freedom.”-William F Buckley

EVERYTHING NOT FORBIDDEN IS COMPULSORY

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to...

Governments don’t reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth.

India is being used as a dumping ground. The French government has taken a very arrogant approach. They have cheated, misled and lied.

What Republicans need now are bold plans to downsize the federal government, not some wishy-washy tinkering around the edges.

The triune God exercises total government over all things, and He requires us as His image-bearers to exercise government in Christ in our own spheres in terms of His law.

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

Beware the ridiculous. It will one day rule you.

The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be...

I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for collectivist Statism, like the trade-names for tooth-pastes which are all exactly alike except...

Nick offered the condolences of the US government to the people of Iran, the government of Iran for the loss of lives and on behalf of the US government, offered our assistance to the families...

Democracy changes its opinions from time to time, philosophy doesn’t.