Quotes tagged as "government" (showing 1-30 of 471) “I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
― Thomas Jefferson
tags: freedom, government, politics
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“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
tags: democracy, equality, government, misattributed
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“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”
― Ronald Reagan
tags: freedom-of-choice, government, inspirational, political-philosophy, politics
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“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
― Thomas Jefferson
tags: banks, debt, deficit-spending, government, loans, political-science, politics
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“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”
― Gerald R. Ford
tags: government, political-philosophy
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“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”
― James Bovard, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty
tags: democracy, freedom, government, misattributed-to-ben-franklin
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“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
― Plato, The Republic
tags: government, inferiority, politics, rule
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“You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.”
― Jon Stewart
tags: democracy, government, humor, politics, public-opinion
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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
tags: government, guns, military, military-budget, politics, poverty, war, weapons
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“I’m on a government watch list. But I’m not interested, because government watches only work twenty minutes out of every hour.
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― Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.
tags: big-brother, efficiency, entitled, entitlement, funny, government, humor, ineffective, interest, lazy, politics, time, watch, work
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“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
― Edward R. Murrow
tags: government, media, news, politics
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“My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.”
― Thomas Jefferson
tags: government, history
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“As government expands, liberty contracts.”
― Ronald Reagan
tags: government, political-philosophy, politics
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“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
― Benjamin Franklin
tags: general-welfare, government
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“Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.”
― Thomas Jefferson
tags: civil-rights, government, organized-religion, religion, separation-of-church-and-state
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“You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we've got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you've got 'The Chosen One' working for you!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
tags: government
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“A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?”
― George Washington
tags: education, government, liberty, politics, youth
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“Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.”
― Groucho Marx
tags: government, intelligence
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“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
tags: aristocracy, capitalism, corruption, government, history, oppression, power, rationalization, society
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“[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 and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.”
― Bill Maher, When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism
tags: citizenship, freedom, government, participation, politics, responsibility
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“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. ”
― Margaret Thatcher
tags: government
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“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of Constitutional power.”
― Thomas Jefferson
tags: constitution, education, government, liberty, politics
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“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence – it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.”
― George Washington
tags: government, liberty, political-philosophy
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“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 to obey orders, not originate them.”
― Mark Twain
tags: government
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“The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.”
― Thomas Jefferson
tags: government, happiness, health, safety
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“I was ecstatic when they re-named "French fries" as "freedom fries." Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.”
― Johnny Depp
tags: congress, french-fries, government
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“I want the US government to dispense with all the “red tape,” and start using Caution tape.”
― Jarod Kintz, I Want Two apply for a job at our country's largest funeral home, and then wear a suit and noose to the job interview.
tags: big-government, caution-tape, funny, government, red-tape, us-government
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“EVERYTHING NOT FORBIDDEN IS COMPULSORY”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King
tags: absurd, government, humor, totalitarianism
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“If you can't say "xxxx" you can't say, "xxxx the government.”
― Lenny Bruce

tags: censorship, xxxx, government, profanity

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“I removed all the doors to our love, so you can’t lock yourself away from me. But I didn’t stop there. I also replaced the doors with metal detectors, so I could fondle you more efficiently, like the highly trained professionals do who run airport security.
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― Jarod Kintz, At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.
tags: airport, doors, efficiency, efficient, efficiently, fondle, funny, government, humor, love, metal-detectors, professionals, security, trained, tsa, violate, violation
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