Quotes of: Limited-government Keyword

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

James Madison

If the U.S. Government was a company, the deficit would be $5 trillion because they would have to account by general accepted accounting principles. But actually they encourage government spending, reckless government spending, because the government...

Marc Faber

There are cases where government-to-government aid actually has worked. Look at the eradication of smallpox and the near eradication of polio. But these are really top down solutions that require government-to-government support and aid.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

Richard Perle

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report.

Dick Spring

Limit your desires and you will improve your health.

Spanish

As regards the social apparatus of repression and coercion, the government, there cannot be any question of freedom. Government is essentially the negation of liberty. It is the recourse to violence or threat of violence in order to make all people o...

Liberty And Property

It is curious that people tend to regard government as a quasi-divine, selfless, Santa Claus organization. Government was constructed neither for ability nor for the exercise of loving care; government was built for the use of force and for necessari...

Power and Market: Government and the Economy

Only when a new government comes to power do you learn to appreciate the values of the old one.

Myanmar

I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.

Jitterbug Perfume

So many limits in Catholic high school! I'm not a bad Catholic, but everything was off-limits.

Ryan Eggold

You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.

Ennio Morricone

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

Konrad Adenauer

I fundamentally believe in term limits, for Congress, presidents, and board members.

Jim Breyer

If you look at, you know, the limitations of creating new products, you're only limited by the technology that you have to work with.

Homaro Cantu

The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.

Pat Robertson

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

Walter Lippmann

War is just one more big government program.

Joseph Sobran

We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

Mitch Daniels

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

Darrell Issa