Quotes about government
government people lobbyists
Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people. Andrew Cuomo
government church authority
PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters. Ambrose Bierce
government genius bears
Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection.
government weather rude
WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up of official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle.
government
MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.
government democracy boxes
Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
government challenges may
Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge. Anthony Kennedy
government cynical
Cynics about government find much to be cynical about. Alice Rivlin
government mcdonalds insane
The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. It's pure government policy. Alice Waters
government towns states
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States. Albert Bushnell Hart
government people three
The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.
government eras wells
In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.
government people gone
All of this is happening because there has still been no reckoning post the financial crisis. So governments have fallen, one bloke has been to prison, the banks have gone pretty well back to status quo, the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. And it's fuelling anger. And somehow [Donald] Trump, who represents the worst aspects of capitalism, has persuaded people he can deal with that. Alastair Campbell
government hazards prohibition
Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard to regulate the concerns of individuals, as if he could do it better than themselves. Albert Gallatin
government america doe
Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in America. The State has no money. It produces nothing. It existence is purely parasitic, maintained by taxation; that is to say, by forced levies on the production of others. 'Government money,' of which one hears so much nowadays, does not exist; there is no such thing. Albert J. Nock
government reinforcement revolution
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. Albert Camus
government definitions politics
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
government people suffering
A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient. Annie Besant
government numbers citizens
More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that we have begun to do psychologically what government has been incapable of doing programmatically. We bring the numbers down--not by solving the problem, but by deciding it's their own damn fault. Anna Quindlen
government church desire
the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.
government politician make-sense
Education is not something that the government invests in. Because if you invest in education, no politician can come and tell you something that doesn't make sense. Angelique Kidjo
government tv-shows survival
I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government. Alfonso Cuaron
government bigs should
No bank should be allowed to become so big that it can blackmail governments. Angela Merkel
government ties political
The enactment of the Homestead Act would create the strongest tie between the citizen and the Government-he would with cheerfulness contribute his proportionable part of the taxes to defray the expenses of the political system under which he lived. Andrew Johnson
government goal people
The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.
government giving liberty
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
government branches privilege
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none. Andrew Jackson
government law practice
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
government people liberty
No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.
government quality demand
In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.
government rights giving
It will be my sincere and constant desire to observe toward the Indian tribes within our limits a just and liberal policy, and to give that humane and considerate attention to their rights and their wants which is consistent with the habits of our Government and the feelings of our people.
government presidential improvement
Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.
government political pay
Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.