William Shakespeare Quotes, Government Quotes, Obedience Quotes

Let them obey that knows not how to rule.

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What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

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If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

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Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are dark and doubtful.

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The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state ....As Henry Home (Lord Kames) has written, a goal of taxation should be to 'remedy inequality of riches as much as possible, by relieving the poor and burdening the rich.'

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Morality is the object of government.

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The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.

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The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.

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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship.

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The Government of India had imprisoned Mr. Gandhi and they had been sitting outside his cell door begging him to help them out of their difficulties.

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Let a ruler base his government upon virtuous principles, and he will be like the pole-star, which remains steadfast in its place, while all the host of stars turn towards it

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Our enemies are a radical network of terrorists - and every government that supports them.

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Faith-based organizations also need a guarantee they will not be forced to give up their right to hire people of their own faith as the price of competing for federal money. If we want this program to be effective and to save lives, people have got to say interfacing with government will not cause me to lose my mission.

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We have set out to promote the work of community and faith-based charities. Government cannot be replaced by charities, but it can welcome them as partners instead of resenting them as rivals.

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Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.

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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us

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I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.

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Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.

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If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.

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The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

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