Quotes of: Governments Keyword

The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.

Lysander Spooner

We measure everything - why not governance?

Mo Ibrahim

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

Richard Perle

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

Richard Stallman

The power of a corrupt government is located in the ignorance and indifference of its people - rjs

rassool jibraeel snyman

Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts.

Marianne Williamson

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Nicolas Chamfort

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

William Weld

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

Louis D. Brandeis

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Bertrand Russell

As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.

Esther Dyson

A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.

Oliver Ellsworth

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

Carter G. Woodson

The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.

Dexter Scott King

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

Steven Pinker

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

Herman Cain

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

Jonathan Sacks

If you say no to cruel factory farm practices, only then will the government say yes to change.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.

Julian Assange

It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing.

James Bovard

But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive.

Jane Byrne