Government Quotes - Page 70

The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue and for justice, every user of land should be required to make an annual payment to the local government equal to the current rental value of the land that he or she prevents others from using.

Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

If we turn to the differences separating Communist, Fascist, and National Socialist regimes, we find that they can be accounted for by contrasting social, economic, and cultural condition in which the three had to operate. In other words, they resulted from tactical adaptation of the same philosophy of government to local circumstances, not from different philosophies.

How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?

A true patriot does not confuse government with country. A patriot's loyalty is to his country, and loyalty to country requires holding government accountable.

Microeconomics is about money you don't have, and macroeconomics is about money the government is out of.

What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.

Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic state can control its domestic enemies by force, but as the state loses this weapon, other devices are required to prevent the ignorant masses from interfering with public affairs, which are none of their business… the public are to be observers, not participants, consumers of ideology as well as products.

I dream of a Digital India where Government services are easily and efficiently available to citizens on Mobile devices.

The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency.

America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.

The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.

I’m a Verizon customer. I don’t mind Verizon turning over records to the government if the government is going to make sure that they try to match up a known terrorist phone with somebody in the United States. I don’t think you’re talking to the terrorists. I know you’re not. I know I’m not. So we don’t have anything to worry about.

There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.

There is only one government in the Philippines and that is how it will stay.

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

The first ten amendments were proposed and adopted largely because of fear that Government might unduly interfere with prized individual liberties. The people wanted and demanded a Bill of Rights written into their Constitution. The amendments embodying the Bill of Rights were intended to curb all branches of the Federal Government in the fields touched by the amendments-Legislative, Executive, and Judicial.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.