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.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governments.

There are members of our body politic who tell us that the public interest is best served when government action is reduced to a minimum and especially when it is kept negative in character. But...

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

[Paul] has no intention to instruct the Christian community about the task and responsibility of government. His entire concern is with the responsibility of the Christian community towards the State.

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

Identifying the flaw in the US philosophical roots requires that we move beyond the intellectual and emotional climate in which the Constitution was conceived and adopted. The meanings of concepts and words change with use,...

President is a curious term for the American head of state, because “presiding” in any meaningful sense is the one thing the president of the United States does not do.

Funding for the Special Operations Network comes directly from the government. Most work is centralized, but all of the SpecOps divisions have local representatives to keep a watchful eye on any provincial problems. They are...

the government was renewing and refreshing itself for the third term in government.

I’m on a government watch list. But I’m not interested, because government watches only work twenty minutes out of every hour.

The social organs are constituted so as to enable them to develop harmoniously in the grand air of liberty. Away, then, with quacks and organizers! Away with their rings, and their chains, and their hooks,...

To him, one of the most fascinating historical aspects of governments was their complete disregard for governing. Governments were single-minded and interested only in increasing their control and any governance that came out of the...

people are saying that Saddam is going to try the occupation, Saddam is going to try the government, but really we are not afraid of that. I don’t think that even the US or Britain...

We wanted our Government to see the faces of unemployment.

I had a dream about you. You wondered if there were any more honest men left in the world, and so did I, because I worked for the government, and if there were any honest...

Let us leave political questions to be decided by the powers concerned,” Sir Ralph would say, “as we have adopted a form of government which forbids us to discuss our interests ourselves. If a nation...

People want peace so badly that governments ought to get out of their way and let them have it.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

With modern technology it is the easiest of tasks for a media, guided by a narrow group of political manipulators, to speak constantly of democracy and freedom while urging regime changes everywhere on earth but...

That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed...

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear...

This is the Law and Order and Terror government. It promised protection – or at least amelioration – against all threats: conventional, radiological, or biological. It has just proved that it cannot save its citizens...

If you can’t say “Fuck” you can’t say, “Fuck the government.

The order should not have been given,’ she said. ‘It was not done for the city but for your private ends.’I shook my head. ‘There is no difference.’You believe that?’A Prince must, or he is...

We want the negotiations on forming a new government to proceed quickly.

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.

There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State.

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.

We are going to continue until the government intelligently decides to call a referendum.

Currently, import is totally businesses’ activity. There has been almost no room for the Government to intervene by administrative means after China entered the World Trade Organization . Along with a recovery in investment at...

In order to secure the Iranian nation’s interests in nuclear field, the government has moved wisely, patiently, and based on a well-devised planning.

He’s feeling the heat. He likes to throw it back and say that the previous government couldn’t fix it. But they’ve been in power for almost two years now and have done nothing about this...

You won’t see them blow up on the stand, nor will the government bait them. It’s going to be much more deliberate and meticulous.

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.

Always remember, Son, the best boss is the one who bosses the least. Whether it’s cattle, or horses, or men; the least government is the best government.

The mass hallucination of the twentieth century is this: that all these national governments, which each year kill or threaten way more humans than they protect, and take a big chunk of your income to...