Quotes about govern
government georgia honest
I am committed to making Georgia a model for open and honest government Roy Barnes
government office people
After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office.
government people support
We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die. Rowan Williams
government forever kind
I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it. Ronald Reagan
government people citizens
Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.
government earth program
The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a Government Program
government issues community
Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community?
government president dollars
Deficits, as I've often said, aren't caused by too little taxing, they're caused by too much spending. Presidents can't appropriate a dollar of tax payers money, only Congressmen can; and Congress is susceptible to all sorts of influences that have nothing to do with good government.
government people income
History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20 percent of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government.... When it reaches 25 percent, there comes an increase in lawlessness.
government withdrawal taxation
The government is currently experiencing withdrawal symptoms, and we musn't feed the habit by injecting more tax dollars into it.
government people growth
We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the earth. Our government has no power except that granted to it by the people It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed.
government people paper
All of us should remember that the federal government is not some mysterious institution comprised of buildings, files and paper. The people are the government. What we create we ought to be able to control.
government might nations
Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.
government helping language
There seems to be an increasing awareness of something we Americans have known for some time - that the ten most dangerous words in the English language are "Hi, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."
government conservative helping
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."
government forever use
Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history. William Hague
government next conservative
It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.
government abuse mind
Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool? William Hazlitt
government law people
Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.
government people citizens
The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated. William E. Simon
government liberty libertarian
The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority government ensues. Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.
government people easy
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right. William E. Gladstone
government-debt tyrants people
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. Wendell Phillips
government growing
Every government is always growing corrupt.
government enemy readiness
We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy. Wendell Berry
government citizens principles
When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government, then the concentration camp ceases to be one of the possibilities of human nature and becomes one of its likelihoods.
government simplicity doe
So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands.
government community doubt
We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.
government giving want
If you want to liberate a government, give them the Internet. Wael Ghonim
government may needs
It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability. W. Somerset Maugham
government people government-politics
Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people. Young Jeezy
government personal-freedom private-life
Let's get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let's take a stand for personal freedom. Willie Nelson
government self people
Effective self-government cannot succeed unless the people are immersed in a steady, robust, unimpeded, and uncensored flow of opinion and reporting which are continuously subjected to critique, rebuttal, and reexamination. William O. Douglas