 |
|
|
|
Quotes about government
|
|
Whenever you have efficient government, you have a dictatorship. (Acton Lord)
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government. (Acton Lord)
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away. (Acton Lord)
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. (Acton Lord)
| |
It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business. (Acton Lord)
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. (Acton Lord)
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. (Acton Lord)
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. (Acton Lord)
In government, one actress is enough. (Acton Lord)
The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society. (Acton Lord)
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate. (Acton Lord)
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. (Acton Lord)
Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. (Acton Lord)
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending. (Acton Lord)
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. (Acton Lord)
Fear is the foundation of most government. (Acton Lord)
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. (Acton Lord)
Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy. (Acton Lord)
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations. (Acton Lord)
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. (Acton Lord)
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. (Acton Lord)
Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -- commitment to a scenario. (Acton Lord)
Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor. (Acton Lord)
The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government. (Acton Lord)
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man. (Acton Lord)
|
government | [2] | [3] | [4] | [5] | [6] | [7] | [8]
|
|
|
Sun |
Mon |
Tue |
Wen |
Thu |
Fri |
Sat |
|
|
| Feb | | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| Feb | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| Feb | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 [10] | 25 [12] | 26 | 27 |
| Feb | 28 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Mar | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | | | |
|
|
|
