Quotes of: Government-regulation Keyword

Smaller government, more individual responsibility, more individual control creates more Republicans. More state power and ownership and control and top-down decision-making creates more Democrats.

Grover Norquist

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

George Pataki

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

Geronimo

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

Harold Pinter

Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.

Hjalmar Schacht

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Harry S Truman

A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.

Iqbal Quadir

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

Noam Chomsky

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

Maximilien Robespierre

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Alexander Hamilton

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Auguste Comte

An act of charity by the citizens questions the worthiness of the government.

Amit Kalantri

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

Abraham Lincoln

The virtue of its Citizens is the only Support of a Republican government

William Henry Harrison

It was an idea that made the crucial difference between British and Iberian America – an idea about the way people should govern themselves. Some people make the mistake of calling that idea ‘democracy’ and imagining that any country can adopt ...

Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest

The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in power. Fear permits the government to operate...

The Death of the Liberal Class

The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against the interests of...

Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States

Funding for the Special Operations Network comes directly from the government. Most work is centralized, but all of the SpecOps divisions have local representatives to keep a watchful eye on any provincial problems. They are administered by local com...

The Eyre Affair

The first symptom of the trouble appeared when Madison studied Hamilton’s proposal for the funding of the domestic debt. On the one hand, Hamilton’s recommendation looked straightforward: All citizens who owned government securities should be rei...

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation