Quotes with government-sponsored

Quotes 361 till 380 of 585.

  • John F. Kennedy The basis of effective government if public confidence.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
    - +
     0
  • Sam Houston The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
    - +
     0
  • William F. Buckley The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
    William F. Buckley
    American political commentator and journalist
    - +
     0
  • Voltaire The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
    - +
     0
  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
    - +
     0
  • Ronald Reagan The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
    - +
     0
  • Walter Bagehot The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
    - +
     0
  • Thomas Jefferson The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the only legitimate object of good government.
    Letter to Republicans, 31-03-1809
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
    - +
     0
  • Bill Alexander The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain.
    Memorials of the Spanish Civil War: the official publication of the International Brigade Association
    Bill Alexander
    German painter, art instructor, and television host (1915 - 1997)
    - +
     0
  • Beau Willimon The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
    - +
     0
  • Carl Bernstein The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
    - +
     0
  • William O. Douglas The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
    William O. Douglas
    American jurist and politician (1898 - 1980)
    - +
     0
  • Bob Corker The debt ceiling at some point has to be raised. I don't think there's anybody that questions the fact that if we ended up getting in a situation where the U.S. government was sending out IOUs like the state of California did at one point, that ends up creating quite a brand problem for our country.
    Bob Corker
    American businessman and politician (1952 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bobby Scott The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bernie Sanders The details of what the Fed did were kept secret until a provision in the Dodd-Frank Act that I sponsored required the Government Accountability Office to audit the Fed's lending programs during the financial crisis.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
    - +
     0
  • Carroll Quigley The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined...
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
    - +
     0
  • James Madison The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
    James Madison
    American statesman, President (1751 - 1836)
    - +
     0
  • Andrew Jackson 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.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
    - +
     0
  • Ben Carson The fact that our government is using instruments of government like the IRS to punish its opponents, this is not the kind of thing that is a Democrat or a Republican issue. This is an American issue... A lot of people do not feel free to express themselves.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
    - +
     0
  • George Orwell The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
    - +
     0
All government-sponsored famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 19)