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«Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.»
«What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it»
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
(Inventor, Philosopher)
| About:
Action,
Experience,
Government,
History,
Learning,
People,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
acted, deduce, deduced
«We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.»
Author: Kofi Annan
| About:
Government,
Internet
| Keywords:
by nature, globalization, governments, internet, operates, slow-moving, tend
«When it comes to federal spending, George W. Bush is the boy who can?t say no. In each of his three years at the helm, the president has warned Congress to restrain its spending appetites, but so far nobody has pushed away from the table mainly because the president doesn?t seem to mean what he says.»
Author: Tony Snow
| About:
Government
«Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may»
Author: Daniel Webster
(Orator, Senator, Statesman)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
despotism, Let It Be
«We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
| About:
Government,
Judgement,
Politics
| Keywords:
accidents, form of government, General Government, tendency
«To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.»
Author: Wendell Phillips
(Abolitionist, Orator)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
gravitation, law of gravitation, planets
«We are proud because from the beginning of this nation man can walk upright no matter who he is or who she is. He can walk upright and meet his friend or his enemy... And he does not fear that, because that enemy may be in a position of great power... that he can be suddenly thrown in jail to rot here without charges and with no recourse to justice. We have the Habeas Corpus Act and we respect it.»
«Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
imprisons, prison, unjustly
«We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy, to avoid burdening the people, and arming the magistrate with patronage of money, which might be used to corrupt and undermine the principles of our government»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Economics,
Government
| Keywords:
arming, burdening, patronage, undermine
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