Quotes about govern
government arena century
Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business. Frederick W. Smith
government air effort
I paid every effort to seek deregulation throughout FEDEX's start-up and expansion periods, because the biggest impediment to our growth was the government regulations that restricted new entry into the air cargo market.
government people trying
It is impossible to manage the health care requirements of tens of millions of American citizens at the federal level. It is impossible to manage all of the permutations of people's economic aspirations and lives through a complex tax code. It is impossible to try to second-guess the market. It is impossible, from a managerial standpoint, for the federal government to do the things it is trying to do today.
government realizing public-service
All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service, Franklin D. Roosevelt
government democracy constitution-of-the-united-states
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
government body groups
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
government order liberty
Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.
government hypocrisy people
In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
government liberty democracy
To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government. . . The individual sovereignty of our states must first be destroyed.
government rights purpose
It is the purpose of the government to see that not only the legitimate interests of the few are protected but that the welfare and rights of the many are conserved.
government everyday radicalism
You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life.
government politics want
I want to preach a new doctrine. A complete separation of business and government.
government people support
You are, I am sure, aware that genuine popular support in the United States is required to carry out any Government policy, foreign or domestic. The American people make up their own minds and no governmental action can change it.
government years two
[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.
government numbers people
But the challenge is always the same whether each generation facing its own circumstances can summon the practical devotion to attain and retain that greatest good for the greatest number which this government of the people was created to ensure.
government years firsts
The first twelve years are the hardest.
government roles research
Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined.
government people world
The American people want their government to act, and not merely to talk, whenever and wherever there is a threat to world peace.
government needs citizens
The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling future need. It utilizes the familiar machinery of our Federal-State government to promote the common welfare and the economic stability of the Nation.
government progress population
In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
government public-opinion opinion
A government can be no better than the public opinion which sustains it.
government trying rise-above
No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.
government hands agriculture
Are we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops, and go right straight back to the old principle that every farmer is a lord of his own farm and can do anything he wants, raise anything, any old time, in any quantity, and sell any time he wants?
government essence monopoly-power
That, in essence is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any controlling private power.
government order top-down
Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies, regulators, and elite institutions- all attempting to quell human diversity and impose order. Thus power always seeks centralization. George Gilder
government america wish
History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other? Jon Meacham
government internet
The government invented the Internet.
government principles duty
No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.
government quality add
The public impression is that the government, industry or the highest bidder can buy a scientist to add credibility to any message. That crucial quality of impartiality is being lost. Johnny Ball
government people shining
Get government out of our way, and let freedom and the spirit of the American people shine through. Luis Fortuno
government tyrants execution
The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims. Lu Xun
government done vices
If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good. Luc de Clapiers
government democracy limits
The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded. Lord Acton