Alan K. Simpson Quotes, Government Quotes, Hands Quotes

It is a travesty, in my mind, for the state and local governments on the one hand to expect the Federal government to reimburse them for costs attributable to illegal immigrants, when on the other hand the State and local governments prohibit their own law enforcement and other officials from cooperating with the Immigration and Naturalization Service to locate or apprehend or expel illegal aliens.

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No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances.

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Compassionate conservatism [is] most importantly, making sure that government is not the answer to people's problems.

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Government should do a few things, and do them right

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A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

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A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

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War is like government, a matter of tact.

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So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.

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A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

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It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.

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Under a Labour government, there's virtually nowhere you can put your savings where they would be safe from the state. ... If you put money in a sock they'd probably nationalize socks.

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He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the institutions, even though in fact they are entirely different from the old ones. For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities.

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A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

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No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

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The less government we have the better.

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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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Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

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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.

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Tags : Aeschines Quotes , Government Quotes , Law Quotes

A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him.

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My idea of government support was, you supply me with hospitals, schools and the environment to do well and that will do me fine. But do not poke your nose in my business.

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