Quotes About Government

States, the final step up in the cultural evolution of societies, have a centralized authority.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." - Edward R. Murrow

The right of dissent, or, if you prefer, the right to be wrong, is surely fundamental to the existence of a democratic society. That's the right that went first in every nation that stumbled down the trail toward totalitarianism.

You can make money in a small way without politics. But to make big money, you need to buy the legislature. Can't be done otherwise.

Free societies do not restructure the rights, that the public is entitled to, for the convenience of spies and police.

This day, before we came to harbour, observing some not well affected to unity and concord, but gave some appearance of faction, it was thought good there should be an association and agreement, that we should combine together in one body, and to submit to such government and governors as we should by common consent agree to make and choose, and set our hands to this that follows, word for word.

You have all these people in the city and everything has become centralized. If you live outside the city and you need a birth certificate or some official paper from the government, you have to travel to the city.

The spirit of service essential to avoiding majority or minority tyranny requires that every official seek to deserve the public trust he may not actually possess. However effective the checks and balances of government, however extensive the prevention of abuses of power by government, the government itself will be less than trustworthy unless individual officials try to be worthy of the trust they bear.

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A political Profession is the mother of all Professions; unfortunately, many countries do not respect that.

Such a democracy establishes nothing that comes in power without transparent, capable, and eligible characters, which can match the essence of democracy. Indeed, it disregards and abuses to itself.

Sure, our taxes and resources also go, for spying on each other to rape privacy.

The foreign policy determines and shows actual freedom and independence of the state.

There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.

The authorities make them hate him. Otsu, these people are simple. They're afraid of the government, so afraid that if it so decrees, they'll drive away their fellow villagers, even their own kin.

The State tells the epic of people's lives, putting people on the scale, weighing all the wrong things, then acting ponderous about the misinformation.

Nice to know a few things aren't in the government's files,' he said, opening the front door and stepping out ahead of her. The human courtesy of waiting for the woman to go through a door was all flourish, no sense. If any danger waited on the other side of a door, he'd rather meet it himself, not send her into it.

Democracy was great for many things, but furniture wasn't one of them.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.

As you may know, the Diplomatic Service does not pay very well even in its highest positions. Oh, we shouldn't starve.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.