Quotes and Sayings About Government
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In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.
-- Alexander Herzen -
Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.
-- Alexander Pope -
I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body, or where I go with my mind. From the skin inwards is my jurisdiction, is it not? I choose what may or may not cross that border. Here I am the Customs Agent. I am the Coast guard. I am the sole legal and spiritual government of this territory, and only the laws I choose to enact within myself are applicable
-- Alexander Shulgin -
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other departments.
-- Alexis Herman -
The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership.
-- Alexis Herman -
A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.
-- Alf Landon -
I left Mexico for artistic survival. If I had stayed, I would have been forced by the government, who control the movie business, to direct TV shows or commercials or infomercials for the government.
-- Alfonso Cuaron -
Nature's Laws are the invisible government of the earth.
-- Alfred Armand Montapert -
The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.
-- Alfred Nobel -
Governments are best classified by considering who are the "somebodies" they are in fact endeavoring to satisfy.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Not in the name of a necessary protection of the white race did the European break into China, but for the benefit of the Jewish-mercantile greed for profit. He thus dishonored himself, destroying a whole civilization, provoking justified indignation. China fights for its myth, for its race, and its ideals, as does the renewal-movement in Germany against the mercantile race that rules all stock markets and the actions of most governments.
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
Certain things we cannot accomplish... by any process of government. We cannot legislate intelligence. We cannot legislate morality. No, and we cannot legislate loyalty, for loyalty is a kind of morality.
-- Alfred Whitney Griswold -
As far as domestic democracy, all here present know that democracy means government of the people by the people. While we agree that consultation and participation are essential to every democracy, this is seldom achieved in practice.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas -
I urge Governments to considerably reduce funds allocated to the military, not only as a disarmament issue, but also as a potential contributor to social and environmental protection and call for the holding of referenda on this issue worldwide.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas -
The Independent Expert is persuaded that recognition of peace as a human right will promote a democratic and equitable international order and that national and international democratization will reduce conflict, since peoples want peace. It is Governments that stumble into war.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas -
You should not be subjected to the pressures, the intimidation, whether by Government or by the private sector, which would force you into self-censorship.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas -
Democracy entails a correlation between the public interest as expressed by a majority of the population and the governmental policies that affect them. The term encompasses various manifestations, including direct, participatory and representative democracy, but Governments must be responsive to people and not to special interests such as the military-industrial complex, financial bankers and transnational corporations. Democracy is inclusive and does not privilege an anthropological aristocracy.
-- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas -
That is the best Government, which best provides for war.
-- Algernon Sidney -
If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced, the ends of government are accomplished . . .
-- Algernon Sidney -
The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of and protection; and they who cannot provide for both give the people a right of taking such ways as best please themselves, in order to their own safety.
-- Algernon Sidney -
The only legitimate government in the world, is the Iranian government.
-- Ali Meshkini
