Barack Obama Quotes, Country Quotes, Government Quotes

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure... It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Country Quotes , Government Quotes

Taxation is the legitimate support of government.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adolphe Thiers Quotes , Government Quotes , Support Quotes

Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Government Quotes , Tyrants Quotes

If any individual who objects to government policy can take it in their own hands to publicly disclose classified information, then we will never be able to keep our people safe or conduct foreign policy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Government Quotes , Hands Quotes

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Government Quotes , Sight Quotes

Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Government Quotes , Chinese Quotes

I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Rights Quotes , Government Quotes

No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, an of regulating the circulation of the medium of exchange so that labor will be protected from a vicious currency [private bank-created, interest-bearing debt], and commerce will be facilitated by cheap and safe exchanges.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Government Quotes , People Quotes

Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Mean Quotes , Government Quotes

So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , War Quotes , Government Quotes

But 300 million Americans, their lending institutions, their government, their media, all believed that house prices were going to go up consistently. And that got billed into a $20 trillion residential home market. Lending was done based on it, and everybody did a lot of foolish things.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Home Quotes , Government Quotes

Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are dark and doubtful.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Dark Quotes , Government Quotes

State are not made, nor patched; they grow; Grow slow through centuries of pain, And grow correctly in the main; But only grow by certain laws, Of certain bits in certain jaws.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Masefield Quotes , Pain Quotes , Government Quotes

Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Government Quotes , Agriculture Quotes

No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Government Quotes