Quotes about govern
government work-out people
If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation. Henry Ford
government citizens death-penalty
Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill. Helen Prejean
government feelings sorting-out
In sorting out my feelings and beliefs, there is, however, one piece of moral ground of which I am absolutely certain: if I were to be murdered I would not want my murderer executed. I would not want my death avenged. Especially by government--which can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.
government world anarchy
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. Henry Ward Beecher
government revolution vote
Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
government anarchy mischief
The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.
government self ideas
Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.
government uprising names
Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty. Henry Knox
government law people
We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.
government people feelings
There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated. Henry L. Stimson
government humanity want
All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises. Henry Clay
government liberty united
All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.
government citizens limits
The imposition of taxes has its limits. There is a maximum which cannot be transcended. Suppose the citizen to be taxed by the general government to the utmost extent of his ability, or a thing as much as it can possibly bear, and the state imposes a tax at the same time, which authority is to take it?
government choices want
The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences. Johann Lamont
government progress desire
Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism. Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
government people together
We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan and work for peace in Pakistan, together. Hamid Karzai
government independence
I too am a government. Gustave Courbet
government california people
I'm doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California. Gray Davis
government hard representatives
It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote. Gilbert K. Chesterton
government ugly
All government is an ugly necessity.
government server blockheads
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost. John Dryden
government people fabric
That the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis, on which the whole American fabric has been erected.... The principles, therefore, so established, are deemed fundamental. And as the authority, from which they proceed, is supreme ... they are designed to be permanent.... The powers of the legislature are defined, and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the constitution is written. John Marshall
government peculiar individual
It is the peculiar province of the legislature to prescribe general rules for the government of society; the application of those rules to individuals in society would seem to be the duty of other departments.
government
This government is acknowledged by all, to be one of enumerated powers.
government people substance
The government of the Union, then, ... is, emphatically, and truly, a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit.
government views might
The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States. John Maynard Keynes
government sight important
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth.
government gold matter
Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
government taxation regulation
Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
government important done
The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
government continuing-on important
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
government lucky coalitions
You're lucky to head a coalition government. I am a coalition government on my own. John Major
government doe blunders
'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.