Quotes about govern
government understanding different
If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on their power conceived by the Framers . . . . Such recognition will not come from a technical understanding of the organs of government, or the new forms of wealth they administer. It requires something different, something deeper-a personal confrontation with the wellsprings of our society. William J. Brennan
government ideas
There is no such thing as a false idea.
government expression ideas
If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.
government greed deals
Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal. William Jennings Bryan
government liberty analysis
Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force. Woodrow Wilson
government democracy principles
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
government justice pity
The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.
government united-states masters
The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
government hands doe
No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.
government warfare interest
Government is not a warfare of interests.
government israel people
The allied nations with the fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations of a Jewish Commonwealth.
government presidential normalcy
Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.
government breathing machines
The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.
government our-generation people
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
government body socialism
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
government liberty rewards
Liberty is its own reward.
government hands people
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
government practice support
The Chinese government does not engage in theft of commercial secrets in any form, nor does it encourage or support Chinese companies to engage in such practices in any way. Xi Jinping
government media race
If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race. Yahoo Serious
government facts form
And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms. Wole Soyinka
government support folks
Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't. Winston Churchill
government availability analysis
... often analysis seems to be based on the assumption that future economic output is almost entirely determined by inexorable economic forces independently of government policy so that devoting more resources to one use inevitably detracts from availability for another. William Vickrey
government president world
Will somebody please tell me what they do with all the Vice-Presidents a bank has? Why the United States is the biggest business institution in the world, and they got only one Vice-President and nobody has ever found anything for him to do. Will Rogers
government amusement investigation
Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.
government usual rich
How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?
government people dont-change
People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.
government records awful
All I know is just what I read in the Congressional Record. They have had some awful funny articles in there lately. As our government deteriorates, our humor increases.
government years three
The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.
government people president
He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.
government poor democrat
Conferences are just like the poor and the Democrats, they will always be with us.
government dry vote
The South is dry and will vote dry. That is, everybody that is sober enough to stagger to the polls will.
government politics doe
Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much.
government debt pay
A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.