Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, Mean Quotes, Government Quotes

In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.

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Today the Iraqi and Afghan people are on the path to democracy and freedom. The governments that are rising will pose no threat to others. Instead of harboring terrorists, they're fighting terrorist groups. And this progress is good for the long-term security of all of us.

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Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Government Quotes , Voice Quotes

No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

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No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.

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The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

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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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History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.

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Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

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It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.

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You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

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Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

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There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

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PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Government Quotes , Church Quotes

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Government Quotes , Years Quotes

Liberty is its own reward.

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All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

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I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.

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It has been suggested by some people in this country that I and my government will be a "soft touch" in the [European] Community. In case such a rumour may have reached your ears, Mr Chancellor... it is only fair that I should advise you frankly to dismiss it (as my own colleagues did, long ago). We shall judge what British interests are and we shall be resolute in defending them.

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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.

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