Quotes about govern
government political screw-ups
Whenever you come across a screw-up this big, you know the government is behind it. Ann Coulter
government rich poor
Democrats don't resent the rich on behalf of the poor. They resent the rich on behalf of the government.
government ifs recessions
There's never a recession if you work for the government.
government abortion literature
Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words 'abortion' or 'tax hikes' pass their lips.
government needs receiving
At every other workplace in the nation - even Mal-Mart! - workers are being laid off. But no one at any of the bloated government bureaucracies ever need fear receiving a pink slip. All 64,750 employees at the department of Health and Human Services are apparently absolutely crucial to the smooth functioning of the department.
government mars answers
Next time someone says, 'Where has big government ever gotten us?' the correct answer is 'Mars.' Andy Borowitz
government black earth
There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government. Allen West
government diversity world
Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world's peoples. Aga Khan IV
government law democracy
It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according to the tempers of their lords, but democratic states according to established laws. Aeschines
government anarchy may
Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy. Aesop
government interesting cinema
The Iranian government as a whole has no relationship with my films. They're not particularly interested, perhaps this kind of cinema is not very interesting to them. Abbas Kiarostami
government importance leash people
Trumpeting the importance of voting deludes people into thinking that they have a leash on the government. James Bovard
government principles consent-of-the-governed
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. Adrian Cronauer
government upset management
As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state. Adam Smith
government sight justice
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.
government progress able
Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to stop it.
government liberty citizens
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
government liberty slavery
Every tax, however, is to the person who pays it a badge, not of slavery but of liberty. It denotes that he is a subject to government, indeed, but that, as he has some property, he cannot himself be the property of a master.
government invisible-hand investing
I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
government cynicism blanket
Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed. Adam McKay
government people community
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities. Abraham Lincoln
government two evil
There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.
government issues adoption
The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.
government open
The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens. Harry Seidler
government
It's really weird watching the government watch me.
government hands liberty
It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is too apt to be infected with a spirit of narrow and illiberal distrust. On the other hand, it will be equally forgotten, that the vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty. Alexander Hamilton
government causes provision
[I]n framing a Government for a nation we ought, in those provisions which are designed to be permanent, to calculate not on temporary, but on permanent causes of expence.
government would-be events
It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle to object to a government because it could not perform impossibilities.
government execution ought
It will follow that that government ought to be clothed with all powers requisite to complete execution of its trust.
government practice phrases
A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.
government rights unions
But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not, by that act, EXCLUSIVELY delegated to the United States.
government giving political
The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the possibility of federal encroachments. That their liberties, indeed, can be subverted by the federal head, is repugnant to every rule of political calculation.
government self people
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government.