H. P. Lovecraft Quotes, Government Quotes, Safety Quotes

I am distinctly opposed to visibly arrogant and arbitrary extremes of government--but this is simply because I wish the safety of an artistic and intellectual civilisation to be secure, not because I have any sympathy with the coarse-grained herd who would menace the civilisation if not placated by sops.

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Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Government Quotes , Law Quotes

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Lying Quotes , Government Quotes

For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Power Quotes , Government Quotes

We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Government Quotes , Might Quotes

Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Military Quotes , Government Quotes

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

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , War Quotes , Government Quotes

What Reagan ushered in was a skepticism toward government solutions to every problem. I don't think that has changed

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Government Quotes

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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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , War Quotes , Government Quotes

Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing government work and public enterprises.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Mean Quotes , Government Quotes

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

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

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

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I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Giving Up Quotes , Government Quotes

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

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Tags : A. P. Herbert Quotes , Business Quotes , Government Quotes

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Acceptance Quotes , Government Quotes

Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Kings Quotes , Government Quotes

The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Military Quotes , Government Quotes

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Government Quotes , Tyrants Quotes

The national government...will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Strong Quotes , Government Quotes

The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Power Quotes , Government Quotes