Quotes of: Governments Keyword

A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

It's not that we don't care--it's just that that we'd prefer not to get involved.

When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

True patriotism is doing something for your country.

When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

Everybody who goes into government gets somewhat chewed up in the process. Being a senior appointee is like being at a startup, only more so: You run into opposition from the entrenched oligopoly of contractors whose business model is to extract as m...

Tim O'Reilly

We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second, we must improve moral standards in government and society to provide a strong foundation for good governance. Third, we must ch...

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, t...

John Major

If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a flop, there will be no value to GDP. But government spending all gets counted as contributing to economic growth. That's why in the early days of crea...

Robert Higgs

Want to depose the government of a poor country with resources? Want to bash Muslims? Want to build support for American military interventions around the world? Want to undermine governments that are raising their people up from poverty because they...

Stephen Kinzer

There are myriad government programs out there to help small businesses. Few people use them effectively. The maze of information makes it difficult for any one person to understand it all, which often leads politicians, and citizens, too, to call fo...

Sher Valenzuela

When I went to live in South Africa, I immediately began to understand what went wrong. Because here was a place supposed to be under apartheid - I arrived there in 1991 - but here a black person had more say and had more influence over his white gov...

Binyavanga Wainaina

...our children must learn...to face full responsibility for their actions, to make their own choices and cope with the results...the whole democratic system...depends upon it. For our system is founded on self-government, which is untenable if the i...

Eleanor Roosevelt

If you want to know whether a society is governed by intelligent and educated, or by unintelligent and uneducated men, see in which condition its scholars live. In a society governed by unintelligent and uneducated men everyone can gain respect, but ...

Elmar Hussein

General: Muska! Just don't forget that the government put *me* in charge of finding Laputa! Col. Muska: Don't forget that as the government's secret agent, I am in charge of *you*, General. General: [growling contemptuously] Blast! I really hate that...

Castle in the Sky

First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speec...

Anthony M. Kennedy

A government that spoke of military glory as an aim would betray ignorance of, or contempt for, the spirit of nations and the age. It would be an error by a thousand years. Even if it should initially succeed, it would be interesting to see who in th...

Love

All government wars are unjust.

Murray Rothbard

I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.

Zubin Mehta

A government shutdown is inexcusable.

Darlene Senger

The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.

Tom G. Palmer

A government of laws, and not of men.

John Adams

John Locke, called the Father of Liberalism, made the argument that the individual instead of the community was the foundation of society. He believed that government existed by the consent of the governed, not by divine right. But the reason governm...

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