I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.
If you want to live big, then don't let the small things kill you.
There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.
Many small businesses are running entire businesses from a mobile phone.
In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.
I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting.
I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.
Boston is really a small town, and the pro sports here are almost like a college sport.
I love being part of huge mega blockbusters, and I love being a part of small independent films and small stage.
The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.
One thing about living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.
A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
Government cannot be religious and self-assertive at the same time. Religious experience needs a spontaneity which laws inevitably suppress. And you cannot govern without laws. Your laws eventually must replace morality, replace conscience, replace e...
I think maybe the classic formulation was by David Hume in "Of the First Principles of Government," where he pointed out that "Force is always on the side of the governed." Whether it's a military society, a partially free society, or what we - not h...
A prince without ears to listen has no head to govern.
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the...
To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the grea...
It is, indeed, difficult to conceive how men who have entirely given up the habit of self-government should succeed in making a proper choice of those by whom they are to be governed; and no one will ever believe that a liberal, wise, and energetic g...
Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.
