Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [661-680] of 1389 Government quotesGovernment QuotesGovernment Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harm it would cause if improperly administered.~ Lyndon B. Johnson You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.~ Lyndon B. Johnson China, Cuba, countries where the only freedoms are those bestowed on a whim by the state -- these countries jail their kids for burning the flag. We do not. America was created around dissent. Our freedom is founded upon the right to make known our opinion without threat of government interdiction -- Old Glory is the ultimate, tangible expression of this national belief.~ Marvin Johnson Patriotism and respect are earned through the substance and values of a nation, not by its physical symbols. By making the American flag untouchable, Congress would be sending the message that approval of our nation is an obligation not a choice.~ Marvin Johnson Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.~ Dr. Samuel Johnson One should be suspicious of “love” as a political slogan. A government which purports to “love” its citizens invariably desires all the prerogatives of a lover: to share the loved one’s thoughts and keep him in bondage.~ Eric Julber It is not the disease, but the physician; it is the pernicious hand of government alone which can reduce a whole people to despair.~ Junius It seems as if the Department [of Justice] sees the value of the Bill of Rights as no more than obstacles to be overcome.~ Prof. Sanford H. Kadish Seditious libel is the doctrine that flourished in England during and after the Star Chamber. It is the hallmark of closed societies throughout the world. Under it criticism of government is viewed as defamation and punished as a crime.~ Harry Kalven, Jr. The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.~ Immanuel Kant Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.~ Abraham Kaplan Monetary policy today is guided by little more than government fiat -- by the calculations, often mistaken economic theories, and whims of central bankers or, even worse, politicians. Under such a regime, inflation of three or four percent annually has come to be viewed as a stellar monetary performance. However, under a more sound monetary system -- i.e., a gold standard -- such increases in the general price level would be seen as wildly inflationary.~ Raymond J. Keating Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.~ George F. Kennan The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.~ Justice Anthony Kennedy The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.~ Justice Anthony Kennedy Big Governments make for small citizens.~ James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.~ John F. Kennedy Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people.~ John F. Kennedy We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.~ John F. Kennedy I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute -- where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote -- where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference -- and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.~ John F. Kennedy Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print