Quotes about govern
government enemy care
There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion. Emmeline Pankhurst
government idols secret
There is something that governments care for more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy.... Those of you who can break windows--break them. Those of you who can still further attack the secret idol of property, so as to make the Government realize that property is as greatly endangered by women's suffrage as it was by the Chartists of old--do so. And my last word is to the Government: I incite this meeting to rebellion!
government tyrants execution
The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims. Lu Xun
government done vices
If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good. Luc de Clapiers
government democracy limits
The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded. Lord Acton
government literature
Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
government desire lines
A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.
government carbon-footprint listening
A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens. John Coleman
government principles should
It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.
government use world
In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants. John Boyd Orr
government agency stories
Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too. John Bolton
government israel clouds
Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments. John Boehner
government ideas people
Well they have an input into policy but in the end governments are elected to put together policy but the good thing about the Wentworth Group is that you know you've got 11 pretty capable people with a lot of good ideas. John Anderson
government sees society
You can't get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV. David Hare
government impunity striking
The Maoists are striking at the government with impunity now,
government iranian patience pursue rights
The Iranian government will pursue the nation's rights through patience and wisdom, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
government sets spent
The U.K. government sets a cap on how much can be spent on discretionary housing payments. Nicola Sturgeon
government doors people
The people want government that works for them at every level. They want good government that begins at their doorstep in the barangay, and does not end before the closed door of a bureaucrat in Metro Manila. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
government evil retrospect
Evil is obvious only in retrospect. Gloria Steinem
government balance should
American families cannot compete with billionaires. Our involvement in government should not be dependent on our bank account balances Harry Reid
government israel presidential
This government has been informed that a Jewish state has been proclaimed in Palestine, and recognition has been requested by the provisional government thereof. The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel. Harry S Truman
government democracy secrecy
Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.
government policy-making world
For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy making arm of the government.
government hands cities
On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to this government's farm policy. On the other hand, the Republicans are telling the farmers that the high cost of manufactured goods on the farm is due to this government's labor policy. That's plain hokum. It's an old political trick: "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em." But this time it won't work.
government civil-rights population
Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal.
government citizens maintaining
Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government J. P. Morgan
government people
As a rule, governments monitor people. Ivan Krastev
government individual knows
I know of no existing nation that deserves to live, and I know of very few individuals. H. L. Mencken
government giving people
There has been no organized effort to keep government down since Jefferson's day. Ever since then the American people have been bolstering up its powers and giving it more and more jurisdiction over their affairs. They pay for that folly in increased taxes and diminished liberties.
government effort extinction
Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.
government essence humanity
Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...[T]he progress of humanity, far from being the result of government, has been made entirely without its aid and in the face if its constant and bitter opposition.
government trying may
Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy against him. Its one permanent aim, whatever its form, is to hobble him sufficiently to maintain itself.
government support natural
The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it.