Quotes about government
government ifs
If I defected at all, I defected from the government to the public Edward Snowden
government nsa office
There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.
government people intimidating
Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.
government able truth-is
The US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.
government whistleblowers administration
In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned, or powerless. No, the Obama administration is afraid of you. It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.
government nsa people
I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.
government whistleblowers should
It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.
government giving want
The question is not whether we want to keep this open, neutral Internet - we do, or should - but whether government rulemaking can give us the result we want. Edward Felten
government rome history
But the sages of Greece and Rome turned aside from the awful spectacle, and, pursuing the ordinary occupations of life and study, appeared unconscious of any alterations in the moral of physical government of the world. Edward Gibbon
government history british-monarchy
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
government people long
By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts, and exchanges. The financing of all public enterprises, the maintenance of stable government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration. The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own government. Abraham Lincoln
government people debt
No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, an of regulating the circulation of the medium of exchange so that labor will be protected from a vicious currency [private bank-created, interest-bearing debt], and commerce will be facilitated by cheap and safe exchanges.
government people can-do
In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere.
government might election
We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.
government self voice
The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow ALL the governed an equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.
government people democracy
Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".
government people
People like getting what they think is free stuff from government. John Stossel
government hire programmer programs secure simply surely systems terrorists
The government does things like insisting that all encryption programs should have a back door. But surely no one is stupid enough to think the terrorists are going to use encryption systems with a back door. The terrorists will simply hire a programmer to come up with a secure encryption scheme. Kevin Mitnick
government ticket
Can we understand - just for the record, we do need the government for a lot of big ticket items. Rob Lowe
government political firsts
Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions Alexis de Tocqueville
government reform moments
The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
government association france
At the head of any new undertaking where in France you would find the government, or in England some great lord, in the United States you are sure to find an association.
government circles ideas
The more government takes the place of associations, the more will individuals lose the idea of forming associations and need the government to come to their help. That is a vicious circle of cause and effect.
government critical-moments firsts
The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most critical moment for bad governments is the one which witnesses their first steps toward reform.
government world united-states
What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.
government liberty inquiry
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
government political taxation
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
government intention japanese whatsoever
It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.
government greek
The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people. Robert W. Welch, Jr.
government interest member neither nor sought statesmen themselves
Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy. Robert Toombs
government mistrust ways
The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition. Kurt Andersen
government people shut
Make no mistake about it, my friends - Republicans, the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people. David Scott
government learned lessons people response
People want to see what lessons the government learned and the response that is going to be made,