G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Government can ensure that we share schools and streets and lunch counters and buses and elevators and theaters, but let us never forget that only God can give us the power to love each other and to respect each other and to share life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
“Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external invasion.”
Source: Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence On Morals And Happiness
“Government can only do two things: It can beat people up and kill them. Or it can threaten to do so. When it seems to be doing something else - for example, handing out money or, say, surplus cheese - what's actually going on is that something has been taken away from one set of individuals by deadly force or the threat of deadly force, a hefty middleman's fee deducted, and whatever is left thrown to peasants delighted to receive stolen goods.”
“Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.”
“Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything.”
“Government can take your money at gunpoint; businesses have to persuade you.”
“Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities”
“Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last week the Senate handed the bill to the wrong party... the poor and middle class.”
“Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.”
“Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.”
“Government cannot be all things to all people.”
“Government cannot be your parent.”
“Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5
“Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.”
“Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.”
“Government cannot kill the liberty to think. The idea, the thought, lives forever.”
“Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.”
“Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.”
“Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs may have been motivated, in part, by good intentions cannot provide refuge from the principle that under our Constitution, the government may not make distinctions on the basis of race.”
“Government cannot provide values to persons who have none, or who have lost those they had. It cannot provide inner peace. It can provide outlets for moral energies, but it cannot create those energies.”
Source: Coping: On the Practice of Government
“Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little he is, despite all his big talk.”
“Government caters to those screaming the loudest, regardless of what they're screaming about. In business, it's exactly the opposite! You invest more in the most successful departments, and less in those that aren't performing.”
“Government central planning means over-riding other people's plans.”
“Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.”
“Government commissions are where accountability goes to die.”
“Government conspiracy? They can't even deliver our mail and it's got our address on it and everything!”
“Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.”
“Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society -- and the solution is laissez-faire capitalism, i.e., the abolition of any and all forms of intervention in production and trade, the separation of State and Economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of Church and State.”
“Government corruption made it possible to obtain authentic passports and visas, which were much more reliable than fake ones.”
Source: Unwanted
“Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there is an exactly corresponding man on paper.”
“Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy.”
Source: The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution
“Government didn’t say you must stop worshiping God.
You must stop praying or preaching the word of God.
You must stop believing in God or exercising your faith.
You must stop your religion, but what is asking for is everyone should stop human contact. and should social distance themselves, because the virus spread easily in a group of people. By limiting contact, it means not going to church, Easter, clubs, Tavern, events, malls, gym ,school, work. I need you to do your part in order for me to survive.”
“Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self.”
“Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.”
Source: Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics
“Government does not create jobs. Government does not create jobs.”
“Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.”
“Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.”
“Government does not do ANYthing as well as the private sector does, and that includes educating your children.”
“Government does not grow by seizing our freedoms, but by assuming our responsibilities.”
“Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.”
“Government does not have magic powers. In fact, the opposite is true; it is the least effective agency invented by man.”
“Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.”
Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches
“Government does the least good and the most harm through subsidies.”
“Government doesn't have to be the enemy, but too much government has produced a new kind of inequality in America: opportunity inequality.”
Source: American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone
“Government employees are public servants and prohibited by the Constitution from inhibiting religious freedom, that is a far cry from sneaking around and into a church and acting like KGB agents.”
“Government employees move up the ladder through educational credentials rather than merit. People are given jobs and promotions based on seniority, race and gender rather than ability or talent. Such a system often overlooks the deserving and rewards the incompetent. There is no payoff for achievement.”
“Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.”
“Government exists only for the good of the governed.”
“Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in translation. But we try.”
Source: The Presidential Campaign 1976: Jimmy Carter. 2 v
“Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.”