Keep your head down, Edward. Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

Now, paper and pencils,” said Miss Marcy, clapping her hands.Writing paper is scarce in this house, and I had no intention of tearing sheets out of this exercise book, which is a superb sixpenny one...

When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.

In the old days feminists would mock women who depended so much on a man. Today if the man is the government, not so much. A man who opens the door for you is a...

Conventional wisdom says if you’re getting a large refund, it’s a bad thing, that you’ve lent money to the government for free for the past year. If your refund is the only way you can...

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally, under such...

(Patrick) Henry rightly understood that the moral condition of the American people was a direct product of their religious faith, and that politics and morality were inevitably intertwined. Thus, the political structure ultimately rested on...

Did not Socrates, all the while he unflinchingly refused to concede one iota of loyalty to his daemon, obey with equal fidelity and equanimity the command of his earthly master, the State? His conscience he...

Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

The Constitution is ink on parchment. It is forty-four hundred words. And it is, too, the accreted set of meanings that have been made of those words, the amendments, the failed amendments, the struggles, the...

The Government’s going to pass a bill regarding schools. Well I never. Interfering gang they are, as if a parent doesn’t know what’s best for her own child. I don’t know, I don’t know! We...

I want to call…for us to quickly conclude work on the government. I will approach Donald Tusk, who fought superbly in this campaign.

One of the things the government can’t do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

Apparently these new rulers of the world did not indulge in any drinking or smoking to soften their moods when they met, which Menelaus knew to be a big mistake. The Congress of the United...

One of the great failures of this Government is tough talk on terrorism, instead of first seeking to understand.

It clearly reveals one important thing that the government is trying to do, which is avoid the Court of Appeals in every possible way.

the government must not hand the terrorists a victory by taking away long held liberties and principles of justice.

I am not in the slightest bit surprised that the Indian government thinks it fit to put its navy on the alert,

All obstacles to forming a national unity government soon will be resolved.

I have an idea about voting, how about on every ballot we include “None of the above”. People may laugh at that, but what that is, it is a vote of no confidence in your...

The government appears to be going very aggressively after these types of leak cases, … and when reporters are involved, I’m just gritting my teeth.

The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn’t. Its function is...

Hitler used the Olympics to show his people that his government had legitimacy. The Chinese government wants a similar result: that countries recognize that China is a great and powerful country.

I can’t predict a timetable for forming the government. All these important points need thorough study. If they can’t reach an agreement, then there will be a problem.

Muslim governments and nations, with comprehensive supports, should help the Palestinian government on the way of liberation of Jerusalem.

A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!

It is important not to disregard the new government before reviewing its agenda first.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors […] I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun...

We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue...

The idea that there is are all these people who are going to make all these great and wise decisions with guns. Because you know all the people who can make the best decisions in...

The infrastructure system providers didn’t understand the interdependencies among their systems. If you talk to state and local government and local utilities, they’ll tell you they have great response plans. The problem is, they write...

Nothing in my 26 years on Wall Street or my six years in government suggests that there is any predictive capability even remotely reliable enough for such a system, … In addition, the early warning...

There could be nothing, he reflected, to equal a government which was simply the honest enforcement, by means of the sword, of the laws of Islam.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity, especially when it comes to bureaucrats in a government who has no clueabout money matters

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’.

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State.

Government growing beyond our consent had become a lumbering giant, slamming shut the gates of opportunity, threatening to crush the very roots of our freedom. What brought America back? The American people brought us back...

Government is bad when it takes more than 30 percent of a taxpayer’s income in taxes. Proudhon was wrong when he said property is theft; it’s our federal budget that is institutionalized theft.

It can be a dysfunctional government,

Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance,...

Were we to be directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

We must judge of a form of government by it’s general tendency, not by happy accidents

Too many young Indigenous members of our community are being caught up in the criminal justice system, with an increasing number of cases resulting in notably unjust and undue outcomes, primarily due to the lack...

It’s a shame, when I’m at the checkout line, and the cashier holds up my bill to the light, in search for a ghost president, or slashing a yellow marker to see if counterfeit. Even...

In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God’s holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.

These changes of terminologies for government-controlled enterprises or economic and cultural offices, in our view, would appear to unilaterally change Taiwan’s status, and for that reason we’re not supportive of them,

I believe the new government will present a peace proposal … The truce will be an important part of the peace proposal.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.