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«The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.»
Author: Fisher Ames
| About:
Ambition,
Choice,
Democracy,
Freedom,
Government,
Ignorance,
Liberty
| Keywords:
ambitious, licentiousness, propensities, propensity
«The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
Christian, Christian religion, founded, government of the United, government of the United States, States, The Christian, the government, the United States, united, United States, United States government
«The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
helping, helping hand, impersonal, neighbor, replace
«The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe»
Author: Andrew Jackson
(President)
| About:
Government,
Individuality,
Right
| Keywords:
foe, His country, punished, refuses
«The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes»
Author: Calvin Coolidge
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Government
| Keywords:
device, extinction, government of the United, government of the United States, in perpetuity, Maintaining, perpetuity, privileged
«The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government its functions do not include the support of the people»
Author: Grover Cleveland
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
cheerfully, include, paternalism, patriotically
«The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
| About:
Democracy,
Government
| Keywords:
bosses, designed, Empire, Employers, interests, invisible hand, set up, special interest, special interests, The Forms
«The government has interpreted the peacefulness of the movement as a weakness: the people's non-violent policies have been taken as a green light for government violence. Refusal to resort to force has been interpreted by the government as an invitat»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Government,
Peace,
Violence
| Keywords:
green light, interpreted, non violent, peacefulness, policies, refusal, resort, resort to
«The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Action,
Government,
Society
| Keywords:
abolished, association, common interest, formal, General Government, general interest, instant, produces, The Association
«The Government does not intend these things to happen, the Commission on whose report the Bill was founded did not intend these things to happen, but in legislation intention is nothing, and the letter of the law everything, and no government has the»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
commission, Commission on, legislation, Letter of, The Letter
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