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I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government. — Jim Doyle

You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state. — Lemn Sissay

The government is ethics rape in perpetuity — Stefan Molyneux

Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry. — Gary Johnson

A state that privatizes most of its functions will inevitably defend itself by employing its own people as mercenaries — Philip Bobbitt

There is, in fact, a strong case to be made that a prime concern of government is the security of state power from the population. As — Noam Chomsky

For where's the State beneath the Firmament,
That doth excell the Bees for Government? — Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be. — Walter Raleigh

Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough! — Michael Bloomberg

And the American people may be sentimental, but their government is not. The US State Department won't trade anything major for one man's life. — Andy Weir

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. — Leonard Bernstein

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State. — Sophocles

He who steals a belt buckle pays with his life; he who steals a state gets to be a feudal lord. — Zhuangzi

I get cross about 13 years of Labour government that brought the country to the state it did. — Theresa May

The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government. — R.J. Rushdoony

It actually turns out to be much harder to really understand government across state local and federal. — Steve Ballmer

The natural state of our economy is prosperity. Freedom guarantees
that. The only force capable of undermining it is
government. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

In 1996, Bill Clinton declared the era of big government over in the State of the Union address. — Nina Easton

The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens. — Thomas Vilsack

When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall. — Alexander Hamilton

If you have small-government, traditional values, you may be considered by your own leadership to be an enemy of the state. — Monica Crowley

A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan to the Suez Canal. — Moshe Dayan

Every head of state and government in the world is allowed to have his opinion and to voice it. — Vladimir Putin

You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other. — A.E. Samaan

It's wrong for a state to turn its people into monsters, even to secure ourselves, bacause we draw the line at becoming what we behold — Kirsten Beyer

The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly. — Isabel Paterson

As New York's chief law enforcement officer, I have taken a hard line against those in state government who abuse the law they have sworn to uphold. — Eric Schneiderman

Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god. — Stefan Molyneux

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract. — Dennis Prager

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want. — Ludwig Von Mises

When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution. — Aristotle.

Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state. — Kirkpatrick Sale

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. — Thomas Paine

The problem for the King is just how strict
The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law
And discipline should be in school and state ... — Robert Frost

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion. — Marco Rubio

If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State. — Benjamin Tucker

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship. — Mark Steyn

[J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right ... — Barack Obama

We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans. — Leopoldo Lopez

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces. — Mikhail Bakunin

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men. — Rose Wilder Lane

The most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state. — Anthony Gregory

The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government. — Aristotle.

Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason. — Michael Schwab

The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything. — Mark Steyn

The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world. — Bernardine Dohrn

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime. — Max Stirner

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics. — Mahatma Gandhi

The separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government. — Anna Quindlen

An empowered public is the foundation for a stronger society, more effective government, and a more successful state. — Robert Zoellick

The modern State, whether in a totalitarian or a democratic country, has far too much power, and we are probably right to fear it. — Anthony Burgess

But separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government. — Roy Moore

Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits. — Emile Capouya

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state. — William Scranton

Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government. — Rick Perry

Really, the one thing that actually works - you know, state-run communism may not be your cup of tea, but [China's] government works. — Jeffrey R. Immelt

Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state. — John Stossel

If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire. — Mencius

Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. — Mikhail Gorbachev

Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will. — Mahatma Gandhi

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it? — Richard M. Daley

Let one state in the U.S. be free of government and overnight you would have an economic powerhouse. — James Cook

If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room. — John Dickinson

The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language. — Frank Church

When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are empty. — Naomi Klein

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts. — Charles Handy

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end. — Aristotle.

Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy. — Bill O'Reilly

The state was made for man, not man for state. — Albert Einstein

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else. — Frederic Bastiat

The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating. — John Lewis

The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government. — Enrique Pena Nieto

Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights. — Mahatma Gandhi

In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God. — George F. Will

Government itself at length must fall To nature's state, where all have right to all. — John Dryden

Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government. — Sun Myung Moon

Forget the state concerns
we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape. — Michael Tanner

We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security. — Stephen Harper

Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Being a successful CEO, where I've driven a bottom line, assembled teams, driven results, that's a critical benefit to running the state government. — Bruce Rauner

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it. — Thomas Jefferson

The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets. — Richard A. Epstein

This website is the dream of people who want to change the culture of state government. — Steve Rauschenberger

When the state intervenes to insure the indoctrination of some doctrine, it does so because there is no conclusive evidence in favor of that doctrine. — Bertrand Russell

The state is not absolute, and loyalty to the state cannot be absolute. — Petra Kelly

The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel. — Harry S. Truman

The government, the state, they're just objects of jokes rather than serious consideration. I can't possibly take them seriously. — Joseph Brodsky

We're against the state, not government. The state just happens to monopolize the government. — Stephan Kinsella

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798) — Thomas Jefferson

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state. — John Kenneth Galbraith

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive — Stefan Molyneux

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. — Stanley Milgram

I don't want a lot of bureaucracy ... I want to run state government the same way we run a campaign - efficient, effective and victorious. — Charlie Crist

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. — Thomas Sowell

I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq. — Sarah Palin

When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. — Euripides

Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly. — Ed Rendell

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many. — Jonathan Swift