Quotes about govern
government individual-choice decision
Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals. Vayalar Ravi
government office asking
I have written to Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, asking him to consider 'staggered office timings' for government offices, which will help in decongesting road traffic during peak hours. Veerappa Moily
government climate dollars
Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers. Van Jones
government humanity ideology
Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains. U Thant
government ukraine election
Ukraine is going through a difficult time. There is nothing extraordinary of the resignation of the Ukrainian government ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections Vladimir Putin
government ukraine organization
I would like to assure you that there is no organization or any sort of repression against people who don’t agree with our actions, for example in Ukraine, Crimea, or any other external issue, no one from official government organs do this.
government political return
The scandalous question that hangs over modern government and excites perpetual outrage is about political money and what it buys. What exactly do these contributors get in return for the hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars they funnel to the politicians? William Greider
government giving consistency
Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence.... Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade; the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion. William Godwin
government evil judgement
Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
government democracy minorities
Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right. William Allen White
government long despotism
There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government. Washington Irving
government enemy constitution
Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends. Walter Lippmann
government
It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
government guarantees
Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.
government expression people
What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted, we must abandon the notion that democratic government can be the direct expression of the will of the people. We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern. We must say that the popular will does not direct continuously but that it intervenes occasionally.
government giving opinion
It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack. Voltaire
government democracy form
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
government law punishment
To those who would submit to the rightful law and authority, all gentleness and forbearance; but to the petulant and persistent secessionists, why, death is mercy, and the quicker he or she is disposed of the better. Satan and the rebellious saints of Heaven were allowed a continuous existence in hell merely to swell their just punishment. To such as would rebel against a Government so mild and just as ours was in peace, a punishment equal would not be unjust. William Tecumseh Sherman
government order important
In any civilized society the most important task is achieving a proper balance between freedom and order. In wartime, reason and history both suggest that this balance shifts in favor... of the government's ability to deal with conditions that threaten the national well-being. William Rehnquist
government revolution revolt
A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it. William Powell
government house wish
Every person, whether in wartime or not, should keep a pistol and rifle in his house at all times. If a person is not going to protect himself, and wishes the government to do it for him, how can he complain when the government decides to protect itself against him, and executes him?
government democracy vote
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them. William Ralph Inge
government hands rights
You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights. William Lloyd Garrison
government land issues
What shall be said, then, of those who insist upon ignoring the question of slavery as not involved in this deadly feud, and maintain that the only issue is, the support of the government and the preservation of the Union? Surely, they are "fools and blind"; for it is slaveholders alone who have conspired to seize the one, and overturn the other. As long as the enslavement of a single human being is sanctioned in the land, the curse of God will rest upon it.
government unnecessary
The government is best which makes itself unnecessary. Wilhelm von Humboldt
government hymns people
The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers. Walter Ulbricht
government lines budgets
Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency. Walter Wriston
government long democracy
A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand. Walter Savage Landor
government voice world
Every head of state and government in the world is allowed to have his opinion and to voice it.
government human-rights provocative
History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
government needs surveillance
Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century. Yochai Benkler
government israel firsts
What I, as the prime minister of the present government of Israel, started to do, is first to tackle the longest part of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Yitzhak Rabin
government israel withdrawal
Vis a vis the Golan Heights, the present government of Israel, under my leadership, is the first government that is ready to speak about a withdrawal.