Adam McKay Quotes, Military Quotes, Government Quotes

“Firewall” seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides “military” and “government?”

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam McKay Quotes , Military Quotes , Government 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Government Quotes , Lust Quotes

The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Giving Up Quotes , Government Quotes

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Responsibility Quotes , Government Quotes

For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Government Quotes , Fool Quotes

There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Government Quotes , Two Quotes

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Government Quotes , Democracy Quotes

Whatever party you're in in America, our troops deserve the full support of our government.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi Government exudes through every neutral State inside information of the frightful vengeance they are going to wreak upon us, and they also bawl it around the world by their leather-lunged propaganda machine. If words could kill, we should be dead already.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Adversity Quotes , Government Quotes

We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Government Quotes , People Quotes

Whether manufactured by black, white, brown or yellow hands, a widget remains a widget – and it will be bought anywhere if the price and quality are right. The market is a more powerful and more reliable liberating force than government can ever be.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Powerful Quotes , Government Quotes

Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Government Quotes , Corruption Quotes

As restrictions and prohibitions are multiplied the people grow poorer and poorer. When they are subjected to overmuch government, the land is thrown into confusion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Laozi Quotes , Government Quotes , Land Quotes

Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Government Quotes , Support Quotes

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Government Quotes , People Quotes

Democratic institutions are necessary and very important, and if I remained at the head of government, it could be an obstacle to democratic practice. Also, if I were to remain, then I would have to join one of the parties. If the Dalai Lama joins one party, then that makes it hard for the system to work.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Party Quotes , Government Quotes

The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Government Quotes , Genius Quotes

Blanket cynicism toward government has always existed.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam McKay Quotes , Government Quotes , Cynicism 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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