No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government no legislature has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
Folks the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
Money is power and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
The greatest advances of civilization whether in architecture or painting in science and literature in industry or agriculture have never come from centralized government.
The government which was designed for the people has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
For in reason all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
That government is best which governs least.
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side the catastrophe is still there.
I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s before we had any government. It worked rather well and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.
The instant formal government is abolished society begins to act. A general association takes place and common interest produces common security.
Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
The people are the government administering it by their agents; they are the government the sovereign power.
People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
To hear some men talk of the government you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation and kept the planets in their places.
In a free society government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
If human beings are fundamentally good no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad any government being composed of human beings would be bad also.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens who assemble and administer the government in person.
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And of course sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather they look to their portfolios.
The government which was designed for the people has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
For in reason all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.
That government is best which governs least.
But let us remember at the same time government is sacred and not to be trifled with.
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side the catastrophe is still there.
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.
A wise and frugal Government which shall restrain men from injuring one another which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs once launched never disappear. Actually a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
If men were angels no government would be necessary.
Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.
The instant formal government is abolished society begins to act. A general association takes place and common interest produces common security.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
When the government violates the people's rights insurrection is for the people and for each portion of the people the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history the stage of rule by brute force.
The people are the government administering it by their agents; they are the government the sovereign power.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
When the people fear the government there is tyranny. When the government fears the people there is liberty.
Experience hath shewn that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have in time and by slow operations perverted it into tyranny.
If somebody invented cigarettes today the government would not legalize them.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life the children; those who are in the twilight of life the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life the sick the needy and the handicapped.
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials but the voters of this country.
In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government and what no just government should refuse or rest on inference.
The problem is not that people are taxed too little the problem is that government spends too much.
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.
To hear some men talk of the government you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation and kept the planets in their places.
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
In a free society government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
Experience hath shewn that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have in time and by slow operations perverted it into tyranny.
If human beings are fundamentally good no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad any government being composed of human beings would be bad also.
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And of course sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather they look to their portfolios.
The essence of good government is trust.
I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.
But let us remember at the same time government is sacred and not to be trifled with.
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.
A wise and frugal Government which shall restrain men from injuring one another which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
Potentially a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs once launched never disappear. Actually a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business protecting all in their legal pursuits granting exclusive privileges to none.
This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal or in other words a meddling government a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
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 a national ID card.
When the government violates the people's rights insurrection is for the people and for each portion of the people the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
Man is not free unless government is limited.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and instead only give legal status to civil unions.
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Man I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.
A free America means just this: individual freedom for all rich or poor or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Only government can take perfectly good paper cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Experience hath shewn that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have in time and by slow operations perverted it into tyranny.
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.
Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.
If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession problems in mortgage markets the problems in the banking sector the problems in government finance in countries like Greece none of those problems were in present Canada.
I personally believe that there's going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think there's going to be a good case for that.
People just want to hear some common sense and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science environmental management government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.