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A government of laws, and not of men.
There are checks and balances in governmentthe checksgo to candidates and the balance to the people.
From the cradle to the grave, Even if I misbehave, There's a place for me On government subsidy.
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
The government of a woman has been a rare thing at all times; felicity in such government a rarer thing still; felicityand long continuance together the rarest thing of all.
The best reason why monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardlyanywhere in the world understand any other.
When the call came for me to form a Government, one of my first thoughts was that it should be a Government of which Harrow would not be ashamed.
His Majesty's Government looks with favour upon the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews.
Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.
Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the Government that heislikethetowntart who has finally married themayor.
Wehave beenthe dreamers.We have beenthesufferers. Now wearethebuilders.We wantthe complete political extinction of theTory Partyand 25 years of Labour Government, for we cannot do in five years what requires to be done.
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son isgiven: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,Counseller,The mighty God, The everlasting Father,The Prince of Peace.Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, uponthethrone of David, and uponhis kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the L of hosts will perform this.
Ask me my three main priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education and education.
No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
Thething whichamazesme isthat I know perfectly well, as a historian, that there is corruption in any governmentthere's always corruption. It's bad when it's more than fifteen percent.
Therearetwo ideas of government.Therearethose who believethat, if you will only legislatetomakethewell-to- do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea, however, has been that if you legislateto make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them.
This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
If any man ask me what a free government is, I answer that for any practical purpose, it is what the people think it so.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.
The Government of the absolute majority, instead of the Government of the people, isbut the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.
The only good governmentis a bad one in a hell of a fright.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Do not criticize your Government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home.
Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, And American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, And American culture.
But without the trust of the people, no government can stand.
There are only two kinds of government, the scarcely tolerable and the absolutely unbearable.
Your sister isgiven to government.
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
Government itself at length must fall To nature's state, where all have right to all.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for thedisastrousrise of misplaced powers exists and will persist. 302
Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice-President of the United States. Should have stuckas Speaker of the House Gave up the second most important job in Government foreight long years as Roosevelt's spare tire.
Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of the war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again.
Thereisa certainbasis oftruth inthefear thatthe Russian government is beginning to have of communism, for communism isTsarist autocracy turned upside down.
They that are discontented under monarchy call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy call it oligarchy; so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes that want of government is any new kind of government.
But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.
These hearings will be remembered longest not for the facts they elicited, but for the extraordinary and extraordinarily frightening views of government they exposed.
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government,Ishould not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse or rest on inference.
The great modern corporations are so similar to independent or semi-independent states of the past that they can only be fully understood in terms of political or constitutional history, and management can only be properly studied as a branch of government.
A thousand horrid Prodigies foretold it. A feeble government, eluded Laws, A factious Populace, luxurious Nobles, And all the maladies of stinking states.
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
What your government believes is its own business; what it does in the world is the world's business.
I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.
Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.
Supposing the Press in order, the people in their right wits, and news or no news to be the question, a Public Mercury should not have my Vote, because I think it makes the Multitude too familiar with the actions and counsels of their superiors, too pragmatical and censorious, and gives them not onlyan itch but a kind of colourable right to be meddling with the government.
All forms of government fall when it comes up to the question of breadbread for the family, something to eat.Bread to a manwith a family comes firstbefore his union, before his citizenship, before his church affiliation. Bread!
'A house divided against itself cannot stand': I believe that this Government cannot endure permanently half- slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fallbut I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Four score and sevenyears ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equalwe here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. 510
Government has no other end but the preservation of property.
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary rule of another man.
Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
I hardly know which is the greater pest to society: a paternal Government; that is to say, a prying meddlesome Government, which intrudes itself into every part of human life and which thinks that it can do everything for everybody better than anyone can do for himself, or a careless, lounging Government, which suffers grievances, such as it could at once remove, to grow and multiply, and which to all complaint and remonstrance has only one answer,'We must let things taketheir course, we must let things find theirown level.'
No government isgoing to take from me my right to speak, my right to protest against wrong, my right to do everything that is for the benefit of mankind.I am not here, then, as the accused; I am here as the accuser of capitalism dripping with blood from head to foot.
I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of those faculties is the first object of government.
What isgovernment itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
We are not a political party.We have not changed at all. On the contrary, the ANC is a Government in waiting.
It is easier to run a revolution than a government.
The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.
If the roads, the railways, the banks, the insurance offices, the great joint-stockcompanies, the universities, and the public charities, were all of them branches of government; if, in addition, the municipal corporations and local boards, with all that now devolves on them, became departments of the central administration; if the employees of all these different enterprises were appointed and paid by the government, and looked to the government for every rise in life; not all the freedom of the press and popular constitution of the legislature would make this or any other country free otherwise than in name.
Lord Hailsham said the other day that the machinery of Government was creaking. My Lords, it is not even moving sufficiently to emit a noise of any kind.
Le gouvernement est comme toutes les choses du monde; pour le conserver, il faut l'aimer. Government is like everything else in the world; to conserve it, we must love it.
There are senseless dreams of the participation of local government representatives in the affairs of internal administration.Ishall maintaintheprinciple of autocracy just as firmlyand unflinchingly as it was upheld by my own, ever to be remembered dead father.
We consider ourselves to be free because no one in our society is allowed unlimited powerno leader, faction, party or 'class', no majority, no government, church, corporation, trade, or professional association or trade union. The secret of its freedom is that it is composed of a multitude of organisations in the constitution of the best of which is reproduced that diffusion of power which is characteristic of the whole.
Theactionoftheplay takesplace onanisland intheWest Indies as not yet self-determined by White Mariners. The form of native government is, for the time being, an Empire.
Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the bowers of paradise.
As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith.
Man is not the enemy of Man, but through the medium of a false system of government.
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
I was with you in the days of glory. At the head of the Government, I shall remain with you during the days of darkness. Stay by my side.
ThepoorestHethat isinEnglandhathalifetoliveaswellas the greatest He, and therefore, truly Sirs,Ithink that every man that is to live under a Government ought first, by his own consent, to put himself under that Government.
The government may tomorrow withdraw every one of their troopsfrom Ireland.Ireland will be defended by her armed sons from foreign invasion, and for that purpose the armed Catholics in the south will be only too glad to join arms with the armed Protestant Ulsterman. Is it too muchtohope that out of thissituation a result mayspring that will be good not merely for the Empire but for the future welfare and integrity of the Irish nation?
In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when everyact of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.
Information, freefrominterestorprejudice, freefromthe vanity of the writer or the influence of a Government, is as necessary to the human mind as pure air and water to the human body.
Vengeance is a personal reaction. But not one that government can indulge in.
They who would be great in our little government seem as ridiculous to me as schoolboys whoclimb a crab- tree, venturing their necks for fruit which solid pigs would disdain if they were not starving.
I don't make jokesI just watch the government and report the facts.
Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Royalty puts a human face on the operations of government.
Government and co-operation are in all things the laws of life; anarchy and competition the laws of death.
This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible, and is something that no one with a spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obeya Government that is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.
The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to impose the views of the revolutionists on the British government and large sections of the colonial populationat whatevercosttofreedomofopinionor the sanctity of life and property.
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
Englishmen never will be slaves: they are free to do whatever the Government and public allow them to do. 778
I wish the Government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. 794
There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this, it requires the highest type of human naturea type nowhere at present existing.
Of all God's works, which do this world adorn, There is no one more fair and excellent, Then is mans body both for power and form, Whiles it is kept in sober government.
Ihavethegood fortuneto be the first Liberal forover half a century who is able to say to you at the end of our annual Assembly, go back to your constituencies and prepare for government.
Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency.
The best politics isgood government.
The foundation of the government of a nation must be built upon the rights of the people, but the administration must be entrusted to experts.We must not look upon those experts as stately and grand presidents and ministers, but simply as our chauffeurs, guards at the gate, cooks, physicians, carpenters, or tailors.
Indeed the arguments on both sides were invincible; for in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery; but in fact eleven men well armed will certainly subdue one single man in his shirt.
It is alleged indeed, that the high heels are most agreeable to our ancient constitution: but however this be, his Majesty hath determined tomake use of only low heels in the administration of the government.
A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
You can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces. 863
A faineant government is not the worst government that England can have. It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his Government a Fair Deal.
A politician is a man who understandsgovernment, and ittakes a politiciantoruna Government. A statesman isa politician who has been dead10 or15 years.
No more distressing moment can ever face a British Government than that which requires it to come to a hard and fast and specific decision.
Why does one never hear of government funding for the preservation and encouragement of comic strips, girlie magazines and TV soap operas? Because these genres still hold the audience they were created to amuse and instruct.
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
In a political point of view, nothing can possiblyafford greater stability to a popular Government than the education of the people.
What the federal government does basically is borrow money from people and mail it to people.
Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency.
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