Quotes about govern
government world narrative
Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished payoffs--what were the chances of finding anyone else seeking to transcend that, and not even particularly aware of it? Thomas Pynchon
government curiosity desire
Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be left within the reach of anyone in Power,- who need but touch her, and all her Credit is in the instant vanish'd, as if it had never been. She needs rather to be tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry Radius, Masters of Disguise to provide her the Costume, Toilette, and Bearing, and Speech nimble enough to keep her beyond the Desires, or even the Curiosity, of Government.
government people desire
That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy. Thomas B. Macaulay
government law punishment
Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest.
government individual force
A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.
government judging happy-accidents
We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
government judging judgement
We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents
government liberty may
It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
government people ends
The end of government is the happiness of the people.
government people democracy
A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press. Thomas Hobbes
government long support
While the political debate over abortion will continue for a very long time, the federal government can and should be doing more to support programs and services that provide women with better options. Tim Ryan
government liberty should
The government should always be the one defending civil liberties. Tim Cook
government parent libertarian
Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. Thomas Jefferson
government political concentration
It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.
government cures monarchy
The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.
government aristocracy ingredients
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency.
government people
No government can continue good, but under the control of the people.
government wickedness earth
In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve.
government tyrants long
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
government virginia would-be
I considered 4 of these bills [of the revised code of Virginia] as forming a system by which every fibre would be eradicated of antient or future aristocracy; and a foundation laid for a government truly republican.
government special united-states
The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a co-ordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone.
government people soil
[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.
government together band
A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion.
government people unattractive
A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in happiness. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.
government politics proof
We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government.
government self politics
The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.
government justice purpose
The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves; they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other purposes than these should not be answered.
government people essentials
Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.
government excellence politics
The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.
government politics said
It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.
government politics degrees
The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.
government differences numbers
Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting. Thomas Frank
government liberty care
Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.