Quotes about govern
government guarantees tasks
It is the duty of the government to guarantee maximum security, and this is not an easy task. Yitzhak Rabin
government democracy form
Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse. Winston Churchill
government doors cells
The Government of India had imprisoned Mr. Gandhi and they had been sitting outside his cell door begging him to help them out of their difficulties. Winston Churchill
government done politics
They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done. Winston Churchill
government wish politics
He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal. Winston Churchill
government house politics
Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections. Winston Churchill
government people politics
it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people. Winston Churchill
government politics conservative
You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer. Winston Churchill
government police atheism
A functioning police state needs no police. William S. Burroughs
government law cities
There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power, water, transportation, protection, and welfare. Your right to live where you want, with companions of your choosing, under laws to which you agree, died in the eighteenth century with Captain Mission. Only a miracle or a disaster could restore it. William S. Burroughs
government
It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government. William Lyon Mackenzie King
government analysis littles
Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government. William Lyon Mackenzie King
government obamacare america
Conservatives shouldn't count on the Supreme Court to do our work for us on Obamacare. The Court may rule as it should, and strike down the mandate. But it may not. And even if it does, the future of health care in America - and for that matter, the future of limited government - depends ultimately on the verdict of the American people. William Kristol
government issues freedom-of-speech
Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials. William J. Brennan
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. William J. Brennan
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. William J. Brennan
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. Woodrow Wilson
government justice pity
The firm basis of government is justice, not pity. Woodrow Wilson
government united-states masters
The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States. Woodrow Wilson
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. Woodrow Wilson
government warfare interest
Government is not a warfare of interests. Woodrow Wilson
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. Woodrow Wilson
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. Woodrow Wilson
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. Woodrow Wilson
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. Woodrow Wilson
government body socialism
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic. Woodrow Wilson
government liberty rewards
Liberty is its own reward. Woodrow Wilson
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. Woodrow Wilson
government promise problem
Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government. William Weld
government three branches
The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government. William Weld