Quotes about govern
government firsts students
At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it. Calvin Coolidge
government air law
There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself. Daniel Inouye
government television monopoly
Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant. David Attenborough
government law political
A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property. Daniel Webster
government benefits majority
Many in local government will ask why should only a few areas have the freedoms and benefits of Enterprise Zone status while the majority lose out?
government needs not-afraid
I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know. Ann Richards
government firsts first-amendment
The First Amendment is about how we govern ourselves - not about how we titillate ourselves sexually. Robert Bork
government alternatives failing
The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and bias, but because the alternative to that freedom is worse than those failings.
government law leader
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power. Thomas More
government evil necessary-evil
Government is a necessary evil Thomas Paine
government sight important
It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments...
government design benefits
Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.
government design world
Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. Freedom and security.
government religion firsts
The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.
government long waiting
There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy. Timothy Geithner
government masters servant
The federal government is our servant, not our master. Thomas Jefferson
government citizens taxation
Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.
government degrees public-opinion
Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.
government citizens may
The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.
government years long
[If] the nature of ... government [were] a subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical power, I [would] consider it as desperate for long years to come. Their steady habits [will] exclude the advances of information, and they [will] seem exactly where they [have always been]. And there [the] clergy will always keep them if they can. [They] will follow the bark of liberty only by the help of a tow-rope.
government abuse bars
The diffusion of information and the arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason, I deem [one of] the essential principles of our government, and consequently [one of] those which ought to shape its administration.
government principles commentary
The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.
government
That government that governs least governs best.
government europe america
The tumults in America I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not. On the contrary, the small effect of these tumults seems to have given more confidence in the firmness of our governments. The interposition of the people themselves on the side of government has had a great effect on the opinion here in Europe.
government newspapers
I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers.
government citizens function
To draw around the whole nation the strength of the General Government as a barrier against foreign foes... is [one of the] functions of the General Government on which [our citizens] have a right to call.
government occupation becoming
Had not a conviction of the danger to which an unlimited occupation of the executive chair would expose the republican Constitution of our Government, made it conscientiously a duty to retire when I did, the fear of becoming a dotard and of being insensible of it, would of itself have resisted all solicitations to remain.
government imperfection comparison
With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing, or that ever did exist.
government law democracy
Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them.
government benefits bears
Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.
government errors giving
Reason and free inquiry are the only effective agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion by bringing every false one to their tribunal, to the test of their investigation. They are the natural enemies of error and error only. Had not the Roman government permitted free inquiry, Christianity could never have been introduced. Had not free inquiry been indulged at the era of the Reformation, the corruption of Christianity could not have been purged away.
government evil separation
The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.
government
Those are governed best who are governed least.