Quotes about govern
government reason ought
[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government. James Madison
government rights may
The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of the Society to controul one part from invading the rights of another, and at the same time sufficiently controuled itself, from setting up an interest adverse to that of the entire Society.
government people liberty
The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
government religion atheism
Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history.
government religion atheism
The civil government ... functions with complete success ... by the total separation of the Church from the State.
government perfect presidential
The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.
government abuse purpose
It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and was intended as a negative and preventive provision against injustice among the States themselves, rather than as a power to be used for the positive purposes of the General Government.
government atheism liberty
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
government done constitution
If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one....
government liberty politics
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.
government charity constitution-of-the-united-states
Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.
government would-be rooms
If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room. John Dickinson
government race liberty
Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.
government organization democracy
As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to inquire whether some functional organization would not serve to formulate and manifest public opinion better than the existing methods. It is not irrelevant to the point that a score of passages could be cited in which Jefferson refers to the American Government as an experiment. John Dewey
government leader democracy
No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but an oligarchy managed in the interest of the few. And the enlightenment must proceed in ways which force the administrative specialists to take account of the needs. The world has suffered more from leaders and authorities than from the masses. The essential need ... is the improvement of the methods and conditions of debate, discussion and persuasion. That is the problem of the public.
government democracy form
A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.
government people wielding-power
As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way. John Berger
government long tools
Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world. John B. Larson
government patterns moments
At any moment there is certainly not balanced trade between the various areas of the habitable globe that happens to be under seperate national governments - there is an ever-changing pattern of deficits and surpluses. Joan Robinson
government unemployment democratic
Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.
government people democracy
Lincoln's reference to government of the people, by the people, for the people is a generally satisfactory definition of democracy. I say generally because when it comes to fair and workable details, democracy fails to completely meet the criteria enunciated by Lincoln by a rather wide margin. George Aiken
government teach nations
What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
government people lessons
What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any lessons they might have drawn from it. Variant: What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
government made referendums
The Government have made it clear that the constitutional treaty will be ratified in the UK only after a referendum. Geoff Hoon
government america looks
Stimulus spending, permanent bailouts, government takeovers, and federal mandates have all failed our nation. America's employers are afraid to invest in an economy racked with uncertainty over what Washington's next set of rules, regulations, mandates, and tax hikes will look like. Geoff Davis
government architecture results
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright
government giving liberty
The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away. Frank Chodorov
government different income
Income and inheritance taxes imply the denial of private property, and in that are different in principle from all other taxes. The government says to the citizen: “Your earnings are not exclusively your own; we have a claim on them, and our claim precedes yours; we will allow you to keep some of it, because we recognize your need, not your right; but whatever we grant you for yourself is for us to decide.
government broken trouble
If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government. George Crook
government shutting-down government-work
Shutting down the government is not how you make government work. George Clooney
government people support
The month of April 2000 will provide an unprecedented showcase for the clean energy options available to individuals, businesses and the government, .. As tens of millions of people take action to support clean energy during Earth Month, the 'New Energy for a New Era' campaign will catapult us toward a clean and affordable energy future. Gaylord Nelson
government people purpose
There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people. Lord Acton
government democracy social
The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.