There’s a whole generation growing up thinking…the government exists to care for them.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.

Government is nothing more than the combined force of society or the united power of the multitude for the peace, order, safety, good, and happiness of the people… There is no king or queen bee...

If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.

Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God. If we would trust God for our persecuted brothers and sisters in other countries, we must be diligent in prayer for their rulers. If we...

Power is different from glory for former, in the long run, leads to the latter.

Obviously these are some exceptional young people, but what they have in common is that they were ordinary people who cared. They wanted to act, to do something, to make life better for other people—and...

There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old “accountable” for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our...

I’m sure once we have an elected assembly and a government for a four-year term, they’ll be looking at all these issues.

Governments can do both great and stupid things.

In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making, the mint and the power to create money, unused land (“the public domain”),...

I would say that since the war, our methods-out and those of the opposition-have become much the same. I mean you can’t be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government’s ‘policy’ is benevolent,...

But so long as I lived under a system of Government based on force and voluntarily partook of the many facilities and privileges it created for me, I was bound to help that Government to...

From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is at the heart of liberty. In 1789 the Federalists adopted Alien and Sedition Acts in a...

It is a victory for those who want fair, accountable and decent government in Northern Ireland, and who don’t want to share power with gunmen.

Homeland Integrated Security Systems has a very innovative product line that will be well received by our government and military sales channels.

Good governance is about nothing more or less than creating happiness. It really is that simple.

He sees this as an opportunity to revamp the entire relationship of the federal government to the region.

[Killing Arafat] is not the official policy of the Israeli government, … It was never before, and we don’t speak about any killing, we didn’t speak about it before, and we don’t speak about it...

The overall assessment — government, private sector and infrastructure — would be close to $5 billion,

You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That’s like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.

You’ve got a lot of [government] departments that are using open source. There’s millions and millions of lines of code. And unless you get some sort of automated way to keep it under control and...

Let us never weary of repeating, that to think first of the disinherited and sorrowful classes; to relieve, ventilate, enlighten, and love them; to enlarge their horizon to a magnificent extent; to lavish upon them...

If you have the right to influence the laws that are made in your community, why not take the opportunity to do something good?

He who steals a belt buckle pays with his life; he who steals a state gets to be a feudal lord.

To win public support and government funding, advocates for human cloning and ESC (embryonic stem cell) research have long made hyped claims and exaggerated promises to legislators and the public.

The federal government, ultimately, is going to have to come up with some kind of plan on what to do with those folks.

Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.

This is very unwise of the government to stop us from demonstrations.

That which we want less of in society should rarely be privatized and that which we want more of often should be.

All Hardin is trying to do is find one or two jurors who think the government is overreaching and that Duncan confessed under duress. Hardin is not trying to win but get a hung jury.

Because we live in a democracy, and the people can’t govern themselves well if they don’t know the truth about the world we live in. What if our rich citizens never hear of the poverty...

Anarchists did not try to carry out genocide against the Armenians in Turkey; they did not deliberately starve millions of Ukrainians; they did not create a system of death camps to kill Jews, gypsies, and...

Being an absolute ruler today was not as simple as people thought. At least, it was not simple if your ambitions included being an absolute ruler tomorrow. There were subtleties. Oh, you could order men...

(Talking about the movement to deny the prevalence and effects of adult sexual exploitation of children)So what does this movement consist of? Who are the movers and shakers? Well molesters are in it, of course....

They need to stop using government resources to favor one candidate. That is illegal and immoral. Don’t get involved Mr. President, it is not your job.

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.

An act of charity by the citizens questions the worthiness of the government.

[F]reedom isn’t free. It shouldn’t be a bragging point that “Oh, I don’t get involved in politics,” as if that makes you somehow cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars...

I used to do it undercover for many years for the government, so I can tell you how simple it is.

Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is in the national interest. Further, military, political, and intelligence communities tend to value secrecy for its own sake. It’s a way of...

tie up three branches of government for the next four months.

Ukanda wa Gaza ni jimbo lenye miji minne na kambi mbalimbali za wakimbizi za Umoja wa Mataifa – lenye urefu wa kati ya kilometa 41 au maili 25 na lenye upana wa kati ya kilometa...

From the end of the World War twenty-one years ago, this country, like many others, went through a phase of having large groups of people carried away by some emotion–some alluring, attractive, even speciously inspiring,...

Ferbin’s father had had the same robustly pragmatic view of religion as he’d had of everything else. In his opinion, only the very poor and downtrodden really needed religion, to make their laborious lives more...

I say we cut our government in half, with a chainsaw along their waists.

The sole purpose of this trip is to express support for the Lebanese people and for the Lebanese government as they try to recover fully their sovereignty and they continue their efforts to reform.

I can tell you firmly and without any contradiction that this is a terrific list, a really good government, and we are very pleased with the names that have emerged.

We said we were coming [into the government] to implement, and assist [Israeli premier] Ariel Sharon in implementing, the disengagement [from Gaza]. We are demanding the confidence of the public; it will be very difficult...

I believe that in the next 15 days we can have a new government and present it to parliament.