Quotes about govern
government outcomes virtue
Good government is the outcome of private virtue. John Jay Chapman
government people unity
The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity John Hume
government matter mendacity
Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter. John Hay
government people independence
The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it. John Hancock
government justice enmity
Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
government would-be rooms
If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room. John Dickinson
government race liberty
Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.
government organization democracy
As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to inquire whether some functional organization would not serve to formulate and manifest public opinion better than the existing methods. It is not irrelevant to the point that a score of passages could be cited in which Jefferson refers to the American Government as an experiment. John Dewey
government leader democracy
No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but an oligarchy managed in the interest of the few. And the enlightenment must proceed in ways which force the administrative specialists to take account of the needs. The world has suffered more from leaders and authorities than from the masses. The essential need ... is the improvement of the methods and conditions of debate, discussion and persuasion. That is the problem of the public.
government democracy form
A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.
government people wielding-power
As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way. John Berger
government long tools
Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world. John B. Larson
government patterns moments
At any moment there is certainly not balanced trade between the various areas of the habitable globe that happens to be under seperate national governments - there is an ever-changing pattern of deficits and surpluses. Joan Robinson
government unemployment democratic
Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.
government people democracy
Lincoln's reference to government of the people, by the people, for the people is a generally satisfactory definition of democracy. I say generally because when it comes to fair and workable details, democracy fails to completely meet the criteria enunciated by Lincoln by a rather wide margin. George Aiken
government teach nations
What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
government people lessons
What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any lessons they might have drawn from it. Variant: What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
government made referendums
The Government have made it clear that the constitutional treaty will be ratified in the UK only after a referendum. Geoff Hoon
government america looks
Stimulus spending, permanent bailouts, government takeovers, and federal mandates have all failed our nation. America's employers are afraid to invest in an economy racked with uncertainty over what Washington's next set of rules, regulations, mandates, and tax hikes will look like. Geoff Davis
government language weak
Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak. Mahatma Gandhi
government victory bloodshed
I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.
government method payment
Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government.
government scratches actors
History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business. James Thurber
government people decision
All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners. James Surowiecki
government payroll-tax political
Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the tax revenue pays for current benefits; anything that's left over goes into trust funds for the future. The programs were designed this way for political reasons.
government unions coming-back
The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're free to be free of government supervision. James P. Hoffa
government details should
Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all. James Mill
government people acting
The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.
government people decision
[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places. James Monroe
government roots oligarchy
Of all the objections which have been framed against the federal Constitution, this is perhaps the most extraordinary. Whilst the objection itself is levelled against a pretended oligarchy, the principle of it strikes at the very root of republican government. James Madison
government safety second-amendment
An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.
government skills different
Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient certainty, its three great provinces the legislative, executive, and judiciary; or even the privileges and powers of the different legislative branches.
government degrees doe
Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of frequency may be absolutely necessary for the purpose, does not appear to be susceptible of any precise calculation; and must depend on a variety of circumstances with which it may be connected. Let us consult experience, the guide that ought always to be followed, whenever it can be found.