Quotes about government
government ideas
There is no such thing as a false idea. William J. Brennan
government expression ideas
If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.
government greed deals
Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal. William Jennings Bryan
government liberty analysis
Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force. Woodrow Wilson
government democracy principles
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
government justice pity
The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.
government united-states masters
The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.
government hands doe
No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.
government warfare interest
Government is not a warfare of interests.
government israel people
The allied nations with the fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations of a Jewish Commonwealth.
government presidential normalcy
Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.
government breathing machines
The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.
government our-generation people
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
government body socialism
We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
government liberty rewards
Liberty is its own reward.
government hands people
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
government promise problem
Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government. William Weld
government three branches
The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.
government slavery nineteenth-century
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
government purpose application
Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.
government noble
Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.
government property
So government acts as a safeguard of our property.
government liberty function
One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.
government office bully
It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.
government justice roles
Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.
government people world
It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.
government roles
Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.
government income credit
The best way for the Government to maintain its credit is to pay as it goes-not by resorting to loans, but by keeping out of debt-through an adequate income secured by a system of taxation, external or internal, or both. William McKinley
government law people
Unlike any other nation, here the people rule, and their will is the supreme law. It is sometimes sneeringly said by those who do not like free government, that here we count heads. True, heads are counted, but brains also . . .
government giving reign
We simply cannot afford to give the reigns of government so someone who will double down on trickle down William J. Clinton
government people problem
Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We, the American people, we are the solution.
government ufo
There is a government within the government who controll this and i do not controll it
government common-sense political
The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.