Quotes about government
government law people
The Government is a servant and never should be anything but a servant. The moment the people become adjuncts to government, then the law of retribution begins to work, for such a relation is unnatural, immoral, and inhuman. Henry Ford
government way limits
We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area. Manmohan Singh
government people entrepreneur
We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive. Manmohan Singh
government unity india
Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India. Manmohan Singh
government rights doe
Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification. Malcolm Wallop
government america long
Today government touches everything in America and harms almost everything it touches. Federal, state, and local governments together spend 42 out of every 100 dollars we earn. Those who do the taxing and spending have long since ceased to work for the people as a whole. Rather, they work for themselves and for their clients-the education industry, the welfare culture, public-employee unions, etc.. Malcolm Wallop
government identity roles
You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us. Malcolm Wallop
government order people
People invest in companies in order to get a share of the profit that company will make. If the Government increases its share of the profits, potential profits, at the expense of the owners of the company, the shareholders, then that makes investment in that company less attractive. Malcolm Turnbull
government white racism
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God. Malcolm X
government people reform
Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people! Malcolm X
government rights citizens
The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest. Mahatma Gandhi
government people india
Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will. Mahatma Gandhi
government satanic india
I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it. Mahatma Gandhi
government association india
A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed. Mahatma Gandhi
government violence incapacity
Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence. Mahatma Gandhi
government voice people
Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion. Mahatma Gandhi
government violence path
For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence. Mahatma Gandhi
government satanic guilty
What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren? Mahatma Gandhi
government morality force
A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance. Mahatma Gandhi
government long rich
A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists. Mahatma Gandhi
government operations duty
The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty. Mahatma Gandhi
government challenges quality
We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government. John Abizaid
government religion foundation
Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society. John Adams
government perfect moral
Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government. John Adams
government law rights
[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe. John Adams
government support honor
Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part of the latter, and consequently has not equal pretensions to support a frame of government productive of human happiness. John Adams
government people liberty
The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great Measure, than they have it now. They may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty. John Adams
government numbers society
The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best. John Adams
government people foundation
As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it. John Adams
government democracy affair
It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present. John Adams
government reputation illiterate
He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation. John Adams
government people revolution
It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense. John Adams
government race world
All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that had ever lived in it James Russell Lowell