Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic. "
Michael Novak
You
Run
Doing
Related Quotes:
" Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety. "
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Safety
Public
Government
" In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny. "
Michael Novak
Human
Free
History
" Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. "
Milton Friedman
Nation
Government
Military
" It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people. "
Ben Linder
People
Work
First
" The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived. "
James Madison
People
Government
Fountain
" Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven. "
Michael Novak
Heaven
Kingdom
Poor
" To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat. "
Ai Weiwei
Dangerous
Media
I Am
" Even rock stars are entitled to privacy. "
Michael Novak
Rock
Entitled
Even
" History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. "
Vladimir Putin
Government
History
Only
" What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people. January 20th 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer. Everyone is listening to you now. "
Donald Trump
Day
Men
People
" The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. "
Abraham Lincoln
Save
People
Allow
" You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there. "
Dick Cheney
Take Care
Care
Fall
" Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there. "
P. J. O'Rourke
You
Government
Good
" I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an invisible, divine entity created an entire universe just for us, or that the government is stockpiling space aliens in a secret desert location. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Desert
Space
Government
" To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches. "
Thomas Paine
Most
Branches
Government
" The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. "
William O. Douglas
Government
People
Off
" A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it. "
Dean Inge
Government
Blessings
Nation
" I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government. "
Gary Coleman
Government
Eyes
I Can
" The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of the constitution, form the supreme law of the land. "
John Marshall
Action
Law
Government
" If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public. "
Kin Hubbard
Government
Something
Servant
" A government of laws, and not of men. "
John Adams
Men
Government
Laws
" When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same. "
Byron Dorgan
Face
Government
Tough
" I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies. "
Henry Paulson
Crisis
Believe
Financial
" I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.' "
Ann Richards
Think
Government
Me
" A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others. "
Larry Ellison
Others
Goal
Big
" Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility. "
Dalton Trumbo
Democracy
Responsibility
Business
" The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts. "
Victor Mitchell
War
Powerful
More
" The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. "
John Quincy Adams
Government
Revolution
Bond
" Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government. "
Mikhail Gorbachev
Space
Life
Women
" If people can't expect their government to be honest and clean, they can't expect anything from it. "
Josh Hawley
Honest
Government
Clean