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Letter "G" » Government
«When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence»
«When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.»
Author: George Pataki
| About:
Government,
People,
Responsibility
| Keywords:
accepts, no longer, responsibility
«While the people off fighting foreign tyrants generally get the praise of the American public, those who fight American tyrants mostly just get funny looks from their fellow Americans.»
«When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.»
Author: Marquis De Lafayette
| About:
Civil rights,
Government
| Keywords:
duties, insurrection, insurrections, insurrection of, portion, the insurrection, violates
«You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
Bureaucracy,
Government
| Keywords:
Bureaucracies, bureaucrat, bureaucrats, outcomes, procedure, procedures
«Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
govern, government, teaches, U.S. government
«While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Government,
Science
| Keywords:
advanced, practiced, sciences, standstill
«When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Government,
Power
| Keywords:
deprives, destructive, extravagant, honorable, innocent, mouths, perpetuate, perpetuated, perpetuating, substance, usurer, violent, votes
«Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Government
| Keywords:
as to, attract, informed, informing, informs, notice, relied, relying, rights, so far, trusted, well-informed
«When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Criticism,
Government
| Keywords:
abroad, attack, come home, criticize, home rule, make up, of my own, the government
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