Plato Quotes, Government Quotes, Lust Quotes

So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

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One law for the lion and ox is oppression.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Government Quotes , Law Quotes

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are, — 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and 3. Hope to all.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Government Quotes , Two Quotes

Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Government Quotes

I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Government Quotes , Injustice Quotes

Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must remain neutral as to the content of expression. And governments must protect the rights of all to express even the most despicable of views.

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Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Rights Quotes , Government Quotes

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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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Believe Quotes , Government Quotes

When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human development.

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Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Government Quotes , Aristocracy Quotes

Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Life Quotes , Government Quotes

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure... It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies.

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It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Government Quotes

The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether government works.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Government Quotes , Today Quotes

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Government Quotes , Sovereign Quotes

The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... In Great Britain, the situation is similar. ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.

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Tags : Abraham Flexner Quotes , War Quotes , Government Quotes

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

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Tags : William Henry Harrison Quotes , Adventure Quotes , Government Quotes

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

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

First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Two Quotes , Government Quotes

Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Government Quotes , Leader Quotes

For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. So let us mark this day with remebrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Determination Quotes , Government Quotes