Quotes About Government

Liberty has never come from the government," Wilson had told his audience. "Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

There have been several attempts at setting up electronic mail systems within the federal post office administration, but all have failed, not for technical reasons, but because the post office is resistant to change, as it is locked into a bureaucratic system in which patronage and civil-service job security are far more important than efficiency. Given that history, it seems to me more likely that electronic mail will come about through private rather than governmental action.

Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.

Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

The separation of church and state, however interpreted, did not signify the separation of church and society.

Whatever institutions or forms of government have been devised through the ages, the idea of liberty has remained constant: the right of each man to consult his conscience without reference to authorities or majorities, custom or opinion.

The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back.

Monarchies conform best to human nature and therefore constitute the most durable form of state.

more stiffly endorsed by Prime Minister Lyons, who expressed support for free speech to the extent that people didn't use it to foment discontent.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated

A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

It was surprisingly hard for insiders to draw this "map" of all the financial flows that shaped the City. They could see pieces of this picture. There was excellent data about equity listings, say. But none of the people working in private sector banks or government institutions could offer an easy-to-follow idiot's guide to show how all these flows interacted.

I believe such compassion and prudence is good politics on the part of Mother Marina. If our convent cannot be completely virtuous, better to give the appearance of being so. Thus she keeps her nuns happy as well as the government and the church.

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I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

A democracy that is reduced in having state of emergency and security as its unique paradigms, is no longer a democracy.

One of the essential characteristics of the state of exception-the provisional abolition of the distinction among legislative, executive, and judicial powers-here shows its tendency to become a lasting practice of government.

What our investigation has shown is that the real problem, the central mystery of politics is not sovereignty, but government; it is not God, but the angel; it is not the king, but ministry; it is not the law, but the police—that is to say, the governmental machine that they form and support.

Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

Orice guvern va conduce lumea, eu voi fi mereu în opoziÅ£ie.