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  • I am distinctly opposed to visibly arrogant and arbitrary extremes of government--but this is simply because I wish the safety of an artistic and intellectual civilisation to be secure, not because I have any sympathy with the coarse-grained herd who would menace the civilisation if not placated by sops.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Government Quotes , Safety Quotes
  • The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Government Quotes , Law Quotes
  • We have to find ways in which, collectively, we agree there's some things that government needs to do to help protect us, that in this age of non-state actors who can amass great power, I want my government - and I think the German people should want their government - to be able to find out if a terrorist organization has access to a weapon of mass destruction that might go off in the middle of Berlin.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Government Quotes
  • It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according to the tempers of their lords, but democratic states according to established laws.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Aeschines Quotes , Government Quotes , Law Quotes