Quotes About Government

Democracy raises up a natural prince for its leader, and aristocracy infuses a princely spirit among the people.

DE ALGUNAS LEYES QUE LOS INCAS TUVIERON EN SU GOBIERNO Nunca tuvieron pena pecuniaria ni confiscación de bienes, porque decían que castigar en la hacienda y dejar vivos los delincuentes no era desear quitar los malos de la república, sino la hacienda a los malhechores, y dejarlos con más libertad para que hiciesen mayores males.

Regular railway services have been further suspended to further harass and increase the problem of ordinary population. Corona is a drama.

What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are so monstrous, we keep on hoping that maybe the corporate government administration and media are on the level with us this time. Americans remind me of survivors of domestic abuse. This is always the hope that this is the very, very, very last time one's ribs get re-broken again.

Local authorities keep an eye on proceedings. The Saigon Protestant Church in Ho Chi Minh City, for instance, one of the biggest in the country, has to submit a list of its event schedules, financial records and appointments of Church leaders to government officials for their prior approval.

Although the press enjoys much more freedom of speech these days, and the internet provides the public with access to the world at large, domestic coverage of the government and its leaders is strictly censored. "Dissident voices" are swiftly silenced, while overseas anti-government websites are firewalled. All this is proof that despite a liberal attitude towards the economy, the government remains nervous at the thought of losing its firm grip on society.

In Japan censorship is practiced not only by the government when it tampers with textbooks but by the media, which police themselves.

history have noted that the sheer concentration of power in government is lethal—that only a sense of absolute unchecked power can make atrocities like the Rape of Nanking possible.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agents are even more balls

Those poor people know Communism gives them bread, while democracy gives them a vote and a Letter to the Editor.

the foreign policy of any government [...] is a prolongation of its domestic policy. This is all to often forgotten in a period of 'summit' meetings, when the public is led to believe that three or four Big Men solve, or fail to solve, the world's predicaments according to whether they have or do not have the wisdom, the good will, or the magic wand needed for their task.

Er bestaat geen noodzakelijk verband tussen individuele vrijheid en democratie.

Tea Party members go to meetings on Medicare scooters.

In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively.

pensò che solo quella democrazia appena nata poteva meritare il nome di democrazia; era quello il valore che invano poco fa egli andava cercando nella modestia delle cose e non trovava; perché quell'epoca era ormai finita, e piano piano a invadere il campo era tornata l'ombra grigia dello Stato burocratico, uguale prima durante e dopo il fascismo, la vecchia separazione tra amministratori e amministrati.

All governments stress an employment-intensive force of production, but are unwilling to recognize that jobs can also destroy the use-value of free time. They all stress a more objective and complete professional definition of people's needs, but are insensitive to the consequent expropriation of life.

the City is not a simple partnership; it is a partnership of partnerships, each of which already has a pattern of its own, a pattern that government did not give it. These partnerships best flourish in that larger partnership which is the City, and law merely assures the background conditions—the most important of which is simple justice—they need in order to do so. Thus the proper aim of the state is not to do everything itself but to support a life which was there before it.

it is impossible to legislate without legislating morality. Try to think of a law that is not based on a moral idea; you won't be able to do it.

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

The strength of America is not in Washington.

The American people are not just being taxed to death they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.

Dictatorship is power based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws.