Quotes about government
government people mind
Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. Arundhati Roy
government wanted
I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything. Anthony Trollope
government erode
The government continues to erode our freedom. Diane Black
government effort tragedy
My efforts to prevent closing of the gold window-working through Connally, Volcker, and Shultz-do not seem to have succeeded. The gold window may have to be closed tomorrow because we now have a government that is incapable, not only of constructive leadership, but of any action at all. What a tragedy for mankind!
government learnt three
Three years after the invasion, this government has not learnt one lesson.
government abandon conversion
The Government will not abandon the free conversion of the rouble Dmitry Medvedev
government tasks overcoming
Unsolvable problems do not exist. Any crisis is a combination of specific tasks to be worked on. The government has the experience and reserves to overcome the economic downturn
government deeds watches
It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served. Diane Watson
government warning pearls
The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.
government people decision
The people themselves, not their government, should be trusted with spending their own money and making their own decisions. Dick Armey
government years law
[T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom, just waiting for us to pick the whole thing up and heave it away. It has to happen. Free people can put up with such laws only for so long.
government tape paper
The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate. Dexter Scott King
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