Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [361-380] of 1389 Government quotesGovernment QuotesGovernment Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionaries and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower 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.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information, and religions destroy spirituality.~ Michael Ellner The less government we have the better - the fewer laws and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal government is the influence of private character, the growth of the individual.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson The New Deal is inconsistent with the principles of limited government and with the constitutional provisions designed to secure that end.~ Richard A. Epstein We will all be better citizens when voting records of our Congressmen are followed as carefully as scores of pro-football games.~ Lou Erickson The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is free from. Neither does he know where he is not free; he does not recognize his native autocrats when he sees them.~ Erik H. Erikson [P]ublic schooling often ends up to be little more than majoritarian domination of minority viewpoints.~ Robert B. Everhart The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.~ Sam Ewing Putting free speech behind bars simply because it concerns prisoners sets a dangerous precedent. The court's decision makes clear that Arizona may not jail the Internet.~ David Fathi 'Racism’ has been redefined to mean anyone opposing big government dependency welfare programs.~ Bill Federer Censorship is advertising paid by the government.~ Federico Fellini Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss of privacy and constant inconvenience as the wrong people gain access to information, as one wastes time convincing the inquisitors that one is in fact innocent, or as one struggles to untangle the errors of the errant machine.~ Victor Ferkiss Governments have ever been known to hold a high hand over the education of the people. They know, better than anyone else, that their power is based almost entirely on the school. Hence, they monopolize it more and more.~ Francisco Ferrer Government…may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another… The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality…~ Abe Fortas No human government has a right to enquire into private opinions, to presume that it knows them, or to act on that presumption. Men are the best judges of the consequences of their own opinions, and how far they are likely to influence their actions; and it is most unnatural and tyrannical to say, “as you think, so must you act. I will collect the evidence of your future conduct from what I know to be your opinions.”~ Charles James Fox To vest a few fallible men -- prosecutors, judges, jurors -- with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what J.S. Mill called the "moral police" is to make them despotic arbiters of literary products... If one day they ban mediocre books as obscene, another day they may do otherwise to a work of a genius. Originality, not too plentiful, should be cherished, not stifled. An author's imagination may be cramped if he must write with an eye on prosecutors or juries…~ Jerome D. Frank Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print