Government Rights Quotes

Governments cannot be denied the right to legitimate self defense once every means of peaceful settlement has been exhausted.

I believe the government has the right to recover from the heirs to the fortunes of its most successful citizens some portion of those fortunes.

It’s inherent in [the] government’s right, if necessary, to lie to save itself when it’s going up into a nuclear war. This seems to me basic.

That every people have the right to change their government, is unquestionable; but it is equally certain and true, that this change, to be morally or politically obligatory, must be effected by the free expression of the community, and by legal and constitutional means; for otherwise, the stability of governments and the rights of the people, would be at the mercy of fortunate revolutionists, of violence, or faction

The government has a right - the government and the people of the United States have a right to run the programs of the United States. Health, welfare, housing - all these things.

A paperwork error can get you on the fly list. A name similar to someone else can get you on the fly list, so there's any number of opportunities where mistakes or abuses could probably put somebody in that horrible position of a government agency really clawing back your rights.

No human government has the right to enquire into private opinions ...

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

As a general rule, governments are unlimited in their powers. All free governments, perhaps all other governments, are entitled in some shape or other to make laws and to repeal or amend them.

As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.

Through the 1990s, 'Reason' was a voice of 'dissident feminism,' upholding the equal dignity of both sexes and supporting the rights of individuals against a government that had gone mad over sexual harassment.

But look what happens when the government gives you rights. When the government gives you rights, unlike when God gives you rights, the government can take them away. When government gives you rights, the government can tell you how to exercise those rights.

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

If you have an election no mater how free, if you do not have a government that respects people’s rights, you don’t have a democracy.