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Letter "G" » Government
«Here was this vast machinery of government and they didn't know how it ran, where you put in the gas, where you put in the oil, where you turn the throttle.»
«I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.»
«If someone dares question the Administration?s leadership or integrity, they drape a flag over the latest mess and cry ?treason!?. Ironically and unfortunately, this bears a striking resemblance to the way I clean my house.»
«Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.»
«Here is one optimist's reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority.A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- 'citizen of the world' -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st.All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.»
Author: Strobe Talbott
| About:
Government
«I can not deny that all may be swept away. Broken by it, I, too, may be; bow to it I never will. The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause that we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.»
«Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Government,
Idleness,
Pride
| Keywords:
governments, heavier, heavy-handed, idleness
«If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, - and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
ask me, competent, for all practical purposes, Judges, lawful
«Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
alacrity, enterprise, furthered
«He who governs by his moral excellence may be compared to the Pole star which abides in its place while all other stars bow towards it.»
Author: Proverb
| About:
Excellence,
Government,
Morality
| Keywords:
governs, moral excellence, pole star
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