Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [201-220] of 1389 Government quotesGovernment QuotesGovernment Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Every time we establish a new crime, we’re creating a new mechanism for the government to check up on you.~ James A. Bruton, III I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befall this country, than be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever to discharge. If this be a just remark, it is unwise and improvident to vest in the general government a power to borrow at discretion, without any limitation or restriction.~ Brutus You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.~ William Jennings Bryan If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.~ James Buchanan We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.~ William F. Buckley, Jr. All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.~ William F. Buckley, Jr. All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.~ James Burgh The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.~ Edmund Burke No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.~ Edmund Burke Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.~ Edmund Burke They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.~ Edmund Burke No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.~ Edmund Burke Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.~ George Burns After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.~ William S. Burroughs Once the law starts asking questions, there's no stopping them.~ William S. Burroughs You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.~ George Herbert Walker Bush Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain.~ Samuel Butler A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man’s business; the eye of the Federal inspector will be in every man’s counting house. The law will of necessity have inquisitorial features, it will provide penalties. It will create a complicated machinery. Under it businessmen will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of Federal inspectors, spies and detectives will descend upon the state. They will compel men of business to show their books and disclose the secrets of their affairs. They will dictate forms of bookkeeping. They will require statements and affidavits. On the one hand the inspector can blackmail the taxpayer and on the other, he can profit by selling his secret to his competitor.~ Richard Evelyn Byrd, Sr. A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man's business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man's counting house.... The law will of necessity have inquisical features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it, men will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of federal inspectors, spies, and detectives will descend upon the state.~ Richard Evelyn Byrd, Sr. The statute mandating recitation of the pledge [of allegiance] is secular because it aims to foster democracy, which is both necessary to the survival of the concept and entirely independent of religion. [...] It is clear in the 2001 [Virginia] state law that no student is forced to accept the beliefs the pledge espouses.~ James C. Cacheris Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print