Quotes about government
government order nwo
All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order. Robert Kennedy
government free-market capitalism
While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
government heal-itself weather
Please remain calm: The Earth will heal itself - Climate is beyond our power to control...Earth doesn't care about governments or their legislation. You can't find much actual global warming in present-day weather observations. Climate change is a matter of geologic time, something that the earth routinely does on its own without asking anyone's permission or explaining itself. Robert B. Laughlin
government offering justice
MR. KHARIS: 'Does Mr. Celine seriously suggest that the United States Government is in need of a guardian?' MR. CELINE: 'I am merely offering a way out for your client. Any private individual with a record of such incessant murder and robbery would be glad to cop an insanity plea. Do you insist that your client was in full possession of its reason at Wounded Knee? At Hiroshima? At Dresden?' JUSTICE IMMHOTEP: 'You become facetious, Mr. Celine.' MR. CELINE: 'I have never been more serious. Robert Anton Wilson
government getting-high way
You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.
government giving decision
And as a matter of fact, governments don't act, governments only react. The bankers make the decisions, and then governments decide how are we going to adjust to this. Government can't do anything unless the bank gives them the money to do it.
government saws financial
I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity. Rob Portman
government people inspire
For all our current troubles, Americans are still the hardest working, most innovative people on the face of the earth. By trusting the American people, instead of government, we'll continue to surprise and inspire the world.
government east middle
U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East. Richard Armitage
government trying world
The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world. Reed Hastings
government abortion quota
I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion. Samuel Alito
government people black
Addressing the moral failings of black people while ignoring the centuries-old failings of their governments amounts to a bait and switch. Ta-Nehisi Coates
government world today
The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders. Susan Sontag
government law class
A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes. Ray Stannard Baker
government use answers
I would answer with the words of the Stasi alumnus Wolfgang Schmidt, who was asked that question: "What about these Americans who say, I have nothing to hide?" And he said, and I quote: "This is very naïve. This is the reason that the government collects the information in the first place to use against you. The only way to prevent that is to prevent the information from being collected in the first place." End quote. Ray McGovern
government needs earth
Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for? Ray Davies
government miracle liberty
[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. Thomas Jefferson
government people liberty
The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy . . . Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone.
government office political
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
government world aristocracy
An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.
government masters servant
The federal government is our servant, not our master.
government ideas sheep
Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every one has a just influence, as is the case in England in a slight degree, and in our states, in a great one. 3. Under governments of force: as is the case in all other monarchies and in most of the other republics. To have an idea of the curse of existence under these last, they must be seen. It is a government of wolves over sheep.
government people liberty
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
government citizens taxation
Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.
government criticism intention
No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.
government departure ingredients
The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism...
government newspapers
I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.
government grows
As government grows, freedom recedes.
government justice house
The constitution has divided the powers of government into three branches, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, lodging each with a distinct magistracy. The Legislative it has given completely to the Senate and House of Representatives. It has declared that the Executive powers shall be vested in the President, submitting special articles of it to a negative by the Senate, and it has vested the Judiciary power in the courts of justice, with certain exceptions also in favor of the Senate.
government political tyranny-founding-fathers
To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.
government paper paper-money
I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.
government trying libertarian
ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.
government administration common
Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.