Quotes About Government

Many senators, even though they had been appointed by the dictator, were inclined to accept his removal as a fait accompli.

ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE features of the Augustan regime was that speech remained free.

Direct taxation for Roman citizens living in Italy was abolished.

The main trouble with the Roman constitution was that it contained too many checks and balances, whether to restrain ambitious power-seekers or to protect ordinary citizens from the executive. It is somewhat surprising that anything was ever decided.

AS far as it could, the Senate allowed events to take their course, intervening only when absolutely necessary.

But now the idea that Rome had an imperial destiny was one of the ways by which the regime justified itself in the public mind.

he may also have received, or seized, tax receipts from Asia on their way to the Roman treasury

the Roman state was remarkably nonbureaucratic; with no police force

judiciary, it was simply not equipped to execute large numbers of its citizens. The task had to be privatized.

All so-called 'quantitative' data, when scrutinized, turn out to be composites of 'qualitative' – i.e., contextually located and indexical – interpretations produced by situated researchers, coders, government officials and others. The

The whole point of government, Spinoza maintained, is liberty: "the object of government is … to enable [men] to develop their minds and bodies in security, and to employ their reason unshackled; neither showing hatred, anger, or deceit, nor watched with the eyes of jealousy and injustice." The state authorities may interfere in religion—indeed, they must do so, since religion is too dangerous to be left in the hands of priests.

Alex listened as the two men argued, neither really listening to what the other had to say. So this was how the government worked!

Oh, and since the state received a thousand dollars in federal funds for every child taken into custody, it was a nice little earner

You'd have thought he would have an opinion about something – the weather, the government, the earthquake in Fukushima, the marriage of Prince William. But he never talked about anything except the matter in hand.

and anyway, in America, bribing a politician is part of the etiquette.

No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.

Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and CSIS have provided extraordinary co-operation, as I mentioned earlier.

The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.

I am grateful for the great education at a public university that Germany gave me, and that - added to a little luck - allowed me to achieve. Education is the key to a career, and its basis has to be provided by government.

I do believe that it was through divine providence that the Founding Fathers drafted a document that created a government that didn't trust each other - hence the separation of powers. And then, to close the deal, the Bill of Rights was added to continue to protect individual rights and freedoms.

I'd actually call myself pretty much a liberal. A progressive liberal. Because I do think that government is there to be a provider of services for people who cannot provide for themselves.

Founders Den provides the kind of collaborative and creative atmosphere to foster new ideas not only for emerging new businesses, but government as well.

The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.