Quotes about govern
government historical democracy
[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism. Fisher Ames
government people nations
No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people. Fidel Castro
government revolutionary democratic
There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.
government people political
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. Herbert Hoover
government development affair
The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.
government community private-sector
If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities. Henry Mintzberg
government goal feminist
Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism. Catharine MacKinnon
government support religion
Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments. Gouverneur Morris
government dominion spheres
The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They always did...they always will. They will have the same effect here as elsewhere, if we do not, by the power of government, keep them in their proper spheres.
government america people
The constitution has broken down. We have no enemies except the ones we select and direct towards the nearest nuclear bombs. They need an enemy to provoke, a diversion. This is the mentality of tenth-rate people who are in politics because corporate America likes them. They are malleable. They give them contracts to build missile shields that will never work. It's deeply corrupt. Gore Vidal
government giving hatred
The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological ... at one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a buck, giving a part of that buck to any government is an act against nature.
government class people
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
government people done
Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.
government liberty libertarian
Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)
government decision gains
When consumers do not take full advantage of efficiency gains, it is because they are weighing other factors that influence their decision making. When the federal government arbitrarily places one of those factors over others, it makes consumers worse off. Gina McCarthy
government waiting godot
Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot. Gianfranco Fini
government results
Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature. Giambattista Vico
government iran two
There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in the domain of Iran's conservative judicial system. Hassan Rouhani
government world resolution
There should be resolutions adopted in top international institutions, which are binding on all states and governments in the world, to forbid the defamation of religions. Hassan Nasrallah
government cities chicago
I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government. Harold Washington
government league challenging-the-status-quo
Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo. Harold Pinter
government needs secure
An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement. James Dean
government water unity
There is in the American Government...a want of unity.... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have one purpose or obey one will so that instead of making steady way the vessel may pursue a devious or zigzag course, and sometimes merely turn round and round in the water. James Bryce
government giving democracy
No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.
government practice armenia
The massacres are the result of a policy which, as far as can be ascertained, has been entertained for some considerable time by the gang of unscrupulous adventurers who are now in possession of the Government of the Turkish Empire. They hesitated to put it in practice until they thought the favorable moment had come, and that moment seems to have arrived about the month of April.
government thieves aids
Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves. James Bovard
government numbers people
Government aid programs have been endlessly expanded, and the government has sought to maximize the number of people willing to accept handouts..... Roughly half of all Americans are dependent on the government, either for handouts, pensions, or paychecks.
government political liberty
Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual.
government people evil
The government's appearing to be a necessary evil does not oblige people to trust it. We face a choice of trusting government or trusting freedom-trusting overlords who have lied and abused their power or trusting individuals to make the most of their own lives.
government order numbers
The sheer number of government employees and welfare recipients effectively transforms the purpose of government from maintaining order to confiscating as much as possible from vulnerable taxpayers.
government people political
It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political hell and people could get off at any stop along the way.
government people reins
As soon as people drop the reins on government, government will leash the people.
government law numbers
However accurate or inaccurate the agency's numbers may be, tax law explicitly presumes that the IRS is always right -- and implicitly presumes that the taxpayer is always wrong -- in any dispute with the government. In many cases, the IRS introduces no evidence whatsoever of its charges; it merely asserts that a taxpayer had a certain amount of unreported income and therefore owes a proportionate amount in taxes, plus interest and penalties.