Government Quotes

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.

Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.

A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.

One of the things I think is really problematic about something like [government] spyware is that it isn't transparent - because of that anonymity and that secrecy, there aren't laws to regulate it.

America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.

The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.

A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.

No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances.

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government.

We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.

Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government.

I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it.

The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.

Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it.

Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.

Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.

Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.

A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

They should set a very clear priority for the government. There is such a large penumbra of issues. The party needs to come to grips with the reality that it has to be coherent politically.

Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments.

There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.

Government will not nominate the former Labor prime minister [Kevin Rudd] to be the UN's next secretary-general.

You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa.

If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.

The Government is responsible for what is happening to black people in America.

The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.

[Khrushchev] should get a one-ton medal.

Ted Cruz is a small-government conservative.

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Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights.

The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.

Most countries choose to have government run the economy.

God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington.

The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.

It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

I need to work outside government, on my own.

If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.