We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. – Ayn Rand
Whether it’s Baidu or Chinese versions of YouTube or Sina or Sohu, Chinese Internet sites are getting daily directives from the government telling them what kinds of content they cannot allow on their site and what they need to delete. – Rebecca Mackinnon
Majority rule only works if you’re also considering individual rights. Because you can’t have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper. – Larry Flynt
Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective. – Pratibha Patil
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples’ money. – Margaret Thatcher
I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving. – Robert E. Lee
Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. – Ronald Reagan
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. – John Adams
You can’t give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad – in fact, to do anything it wants. – Harry Browne
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. – Abraham Lincoln
Americans in particular are myopic. They’re not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That’s what I did. I went to Indonesia. – Julie Taymor
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. – Woodrow Wilson
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. – George Washington
If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves. – Lysander Spooner
I have a 4-year-old and a 14-year-old, and think I missed a recital and a graduation, and they were like ‘It’s OK mommy, we’ll take pictures.’ It was my upset, though… they were just fine! I just give them a kiss and a hug and let them know that I love them every day. – Kimberly Quinn