Government Quotes
I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.
The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.
We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.
When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.
Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism.
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country.
It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.
Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.
The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a really profound revival of religious life
The national Government sees in both Christian denominations the most important factor for the maintenance of our society.
It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take their natural course without help or impediment, which is generally the best policy.
Co-operation between governments still plays an important role and will remain indispensable.
We must lead in a different way... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction and works with the government for its implementation.
I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can't get away from them.
Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.
When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human development.
Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.
Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.
Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them.
The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.
I'm opposed to censorship of any kind, especially by government. But it's plain common sense that producers should target their product with some kind of sensitivity.
Humankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.
The simple truth is that our businessmen do not want a government that will let business alone. They want a government they can use.
the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.
The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.
If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative, may be ranked among the number.
What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.
The interventionist policy (big government) provides thousands and thousands of people with safe, placid, and not too strenuous jobs at the expense of the rest of society.
Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government, we will be a distracted, contentious people.
An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?
The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.
If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense.
During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.
Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.
No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.
But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.
I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.
The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.
I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.
Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects.