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Governs Quotes (page 76)

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy. Howard Zinn
Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must! Sarah Palin
John Stuart Mill quote: "Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with..."
Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement. John Stuart Mill
Leo Tolstoy quote: "Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult."
Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult. Leo Tolstoy
The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State. Harry S. Truman
Martin Luther King jr. quote: "The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own..."
The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent. Martin Luther King jr.
Once in a while a new government initiates a program to put power to better use, but its success or failure never really proves anything. In science, experiments are designed, checked, altered, repeated-- but not in politics... We have no real cumulative knowledge. History tells us nothing. That's the tragedy of a political reformer. B. F. Skinner
One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government. Ron Paul
It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Ray Bradbury
In the end, Miss Marcy took the middle pages out of her library record, which gave us a pleasant feeling that we were stealing from the government, and then we sat round the table and elected her chairman. Dodie Smith
What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; on many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and... James Madison
Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it. Anne Rice
Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory. William Blake
the fatal false step which, once taken, would thrust her down into the terrible slavery of appetite and hate and economics and government which our race knows so well. C. S. Lewis
When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business. Henry Hazlitt

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