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Government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about contentment

Government is not show business.

Quote by Warren Beatty about affair

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

Quote by William Godwin about education

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil, in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Quote by Thomas Paine about guvernement, state

The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power they just don't have.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about power

The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about bad luck, respect, thinking, bad

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about elections, tests, success, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about reason, world

In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north.

Quote by Gerry Adams about power

America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for the unalienable right for life. This right to life cannot be granted or denied by government because it does not come from government, it comes from the creator of life.

Quote by George W. Bush about rightness, life, liberty, god, happiness

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that...

Quote by Winston Churchill about democracy, sin, time, perfection, world

Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save,...

Quote by Martin Feldstein about work

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about contentment

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

Quote by Alexander Hamilton about guvernement, difficulties, man, contentment

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies rather than as your civic duty is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

Quote by Tom G. Palmer about reason, duty

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need...

Quote by Ron Paul about privacy, purpose, society, need

As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.

Quote by Mike Pence about press, power, faith, real estate, time

Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.

Quote by Shimon Peres about teaching, talking

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

Quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger about guvernement, society, future, people

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Quote by Confucius about politics