Alan Greenspan Quotes, Government Quotes, Favors Quotes

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Greenspan Quotes , Government Quotes , Favors Quotes

The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Errors Quotes , Government Quotes

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , War Quotes , Government Quotes

In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Government Quotes , Ideas Quotes

If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Numbers Quotes , Government Quotes

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Change Quotes , Government Quotes

The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Government Quotes , Citizens Quotes

God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Government Quotes , Law Quotes

Here in Europe some of the challenges have to do with structures that are so complicated. You've got Brussels, and you've got parliament, you've got councils and then you've got national governments. So people sometimes don't feel as if they know who's making decisions, and the more that we can bring people in and engage them, the better. Some of it is also cultural and social, people's sense of identity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Government Quotes , Europe Quotes

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aesop Quotes , Government Quotes , May Quotes

The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao. When rich speculators prosper While farmers lose their land; when government officials spend money on weapons instead of cures; when the upper class is extravagant and irresponsible while the poor have nowhere to turn- all this is robbery and chaos. It is not in keeping with the Tao.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Laozi Quotes , Government Quotes , Land Quotes

We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the federal government. And they don't take that from me on capital gains. They don't take that from me on dividends.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Government Quotes , Payroll Tax Quotes

Public opinion in this country is everything.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Country Quotes , Government Quotes

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Government Quotes , Self Quotes

Since I've been in the Senate, is that my work with people like Tom Coburn on opening up transparency in government, making sure that every dollar the federal government spends that's out there - that that's all posted on a searchable database on the Internet.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Government Quotes , Opening Up Quotes

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Government Quotes , Fossils Quotes

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Successful Quotes , Government Quotes

Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation or inflated currency of Bank bankruptcy.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Loss Quotes , Government Quotes

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Government Quotes , Invisible Hand Quotes

We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Government Quotes , History Quotes