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Letter "G" » Government
«Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens.»
Author: Edgar A. Suter
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
citizens, coercion, denied, governments, instruments, possess, violence
«Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.»
Author: Fred Woodworth
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
accustomed, cooperate, cooperated, cooperating, helpfulness, mutual, unnecessary
«Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.»
«Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification»
Author: Malcolm Wallop
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
deny, grant, justification, must not, Not now, rights, U.S. government, using
«Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.»
Author: Wendell Phillips
(Abolitionist, Orator)
| About:
Government,
Minority
| Keywords:
governments, minorities, protect, protection
«Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.»
Author: Jimmy Carter
(President)
| About:
Government,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
contrivance, contrivances, provide for
«Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
association, Association of, The Association, U.S. government, violence
«Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.»
«Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
actually, arbitrary, civilize, civilized, civilizes, civilizing, cruel, grasping, tolerable, unintelligent, worst
«Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
auction, auction sale, broker, brokers, election, goods, pillage, pillaging, sale, stolen
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