Quotes about government
government guy liberty
The (Supreme Court) ruling that anyone who's arrested -- even accidentally -- can be strip-searched was decided five to four, with the votes for the searches coming from the Court's five conservatives. You know -- the 'defending personal liberty' guys. Which is weird because I'm not a constitutional scholar, but I'm willing to bet Big Government feels it's biggest when it's inside your anus. Jon Stewart
government progress liberty
The ultimate success of this government and the stability of its institutions, its progress in all that can make a nation honored, depend upon its adherence to the principles of truth and righteousness. Jon Lord
government australia progress
In Australia we have a government actively undoing what little progress had been made on climate change and stripping money from all the important institutions such as the ABC, CSIRO and SBS. Justine Larbalestier
government decision beef
But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and the like. There will be enormous ramifications across the beef industry generally as a result of the Government's decision to ban all exports to all of the abattoirs in Indonesia. Julie Bishop
government facts strategy
It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios.
government way institutions
I call on the Australian Government to set out the conditions upon which they will provide a taxpayer funded backing for wholesale term funding for Australian deposit taking institutions. I call on the Government it make clear the conditions upon which taxpayer funds will be used in this way.
government definitions etiquette
Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account. Judith Martin
government law people
The house of representatives ... can make no law, which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass of society. This has always been deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the rulers and the people together. It creates between them that communion of interest, and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into tyranny. James Madison
government democracy form
Democracy is the most vile form of government.
government choices citizens
That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of their faculties, and free choice of their occupations.
government church needs
A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.
government order law
Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have ever maintained. True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence social harmony is but a myth.... Thus the entire arsenal of governments - laws, police, soldiers, the courts, legislatures, prisons - is strenuously engaged in "harmonizing" the most antagonistic elements in society. Emma Goldman
government essence majority-rule
"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance its aim is the absolute subordination of the individual.
government people states
The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.
government
There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.
government free-spirit weight
all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.
government goes-on method
The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.
government anarchy injustice
... the keynote of government is injustice.
government order mind
Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. It stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals…
government liberty libertarian
There's never been a good government.
government hands justice
Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist. Emiliano Zapata
government justice people
If there is not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government.
government dna levels
The biggest government waste: The death penalty. An individual death-penalty case could climb to $100 million, much of it spent at the litigation level. Also, DNA evidence has exonerated nearly 300 death-row inmates. John McLaughlin
government action lied
We have been lied to and terrorized by our own government, and it is time to take action. John Mellencamp
government people southern
And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, ‘Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area. John McCain
government administration conspiracy
Excessive administration secrecy... feeds conspiracy theories and reduces the public's confidence in government.
government typical roles
I am all in favor of pay equity for women, but this kind of legislation, as is typical of what's being proposed by my friends on the other side of the aisle, opens us up to lawsuits for all kinds of problems.....This is government playing a much, much greater role in the business of a private enterprise system.
government without-trust
Without trusting government you can't do a lot of things.
government average games
In the Washington soft money game, big business and big labor are accomplices working together to protect the mushy middle of big government, with plenty of special interest plums: Big unions get big spending and big business gets corporate welfare and special tax breaks - all at the expense of average Americans.
government office honor
On my honor, I swear to you, that from my first day in office to the last breath I draw, I will do everything in my power to make you proud of your government.
government media house
Through a blog, an ordinary citizen such as myself can use the Internet, this thing invented by Albert Gore, to talk from my house to the U.S. capital and to make use of my right to point out to government officials and to the media when they are wrong. John Jay Hooker
government people justice
But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.
government outcomes virtue
Good government is the outcome of private virtue. John Jay Chapman