A Quotes
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“A government is challenged when its citizens refuse to pay taxes, serve in the armed forces, participate in elections, and so on, and it may meet the challenge either by strengthening its contingencies or by bringing deferred gains to bear on the behaviour at issue. But how can it answer the question: ‘Why should I care whether my government, or my form of government, survives long after my death?’ Similarly, a religious organization is challenged when its communicants do not go to church, contribute to its support, take political action in its interests, and so on, and it may meet the challenge by strengthening its contingencies or pointing to deferred gains. But what is its answer to the question: ‘Why should I work for the long-term survival of my religion?’ An economic system is challenged when people. do not work productively, and it may respond by sharpening its contingencies or pointing to deferred advantages. But what is its answer to the question: ‘Why should I be concerned about the survival of a particular kind of economic system?’ The only honest answer to that kind of question seems to be this: ‘There is no good reason why you should be concerned, but if your culture has not convinced you that there is, so much the worse for your culture.”
Source: Beyond Freedom and Dignity
“A government is for the benefit of all the people.”
Source: Liberty Under Law
“A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.”
“A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.”
Source: Great Speeches Collection 1 - AUDIO EDITION
“A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.”
“A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.”
“A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.”
“A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.”
Source: Political and moral dimensions
“A government is one that thinks and hears the voice of the poor. A government must live for the poor.”
“A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in person, which would be impracticable beyond the limits of a city or small township, but by representatives chosen by himself and responsible to him at short periods.”
Source: The Essential Jefferson
“A government is the most dangerous threat to man”
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness
“A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.”
“A government may only govern so long as the people, through their representatives, vote it the money to carry on.”
Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage
“A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.”
“A government must rule by the Grace of God or by the will of the people, it must believe in authority or in the Revolution; on these issues compromise is possible only in semblance, and only for a time. The Revolution, like the disbelief which has always accompanied it, cannot be stopped halfway; it is a force that, once awakened, will not rest until it ends in a totalitarian Kingdom of this world. The history of the last two centuries has proved nothing if not this. To appease the Revolution and offer it concessions, as Liberals have always done, thereby showing that they have no truth with which to oppose it, is perhaps to postpone, but not to prevent, the attainment of its end. And to oppose the radical Revolution with a Revolution of one's own, whether it be "conservative," " non-violent," or "spiritual," is not merely to reveal ignorance of the full scope and nature of the Revolution of our time, but to concede as well the first principle of that Revolution: that the old truth is no longer true, and a new truth must take its place.”
Source: Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age
“A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.”
Source: Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel: A Novel
“A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.”
“A government of laws, and not of men.”
“A government of our own is our natural right”
Source: Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings
“A government of our own is our natural right; and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he will become convinced, that it is infinitely wiser and safer, to form a constitution of our own in a cool deliberate manner, while we have it in our power, than to trust such an interesting event to time and chance.”
Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion
“A government of the people, a democracy, has room for peaceful civil disobedience—a practice that appeals to the humanity and sense of justice of the opposition (not defined as the 'enemy') and insists that we do all, in fact, belong to the beloved community.”
Source: Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It
“A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.”
“A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.”
“A government offering such bounty to builders and lenders could have required compliance with a nondiscrimination policy. Instead, the FHA adopted a racial policy that could well have been culled from the Nuremberg laws.”
“A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to something worse.”
“A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself. If it had, it would be arbitrary. It might make itself what it pleased; and wherever such a right is set up, it shows there is no constitution.”
Source: The Political Writings of Thomas Paine ...: Prospects on the Rubicon. Rights of man, part I. Rights of man, part II. Letter to the authors of the Republican. Letter to the Abbe Sieyes. Address to the addressers. Letters to Lord Onslow. Dissertation on the first principles of government. Speech delivered in the French National convention. Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas. The decline and fall of the English system of finance. Letter to the people of France. Reasons for preserving the life of Louis
“A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.”
Source: The Damned
“A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible, free from every other control but a regard to the public good and to the sense of the people.”
Source: The federalist papers
“A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.”
“A government regulating itself by what is wise and just for the many, uninfluenced by the local and selfish views of the few who direct their affairs, has not been seen, perhaps, on earth. Or if it existed for a moment at the birth of ours, it would not be easy to fix the term of its continuance. Still, I believe it does exist here in a greater degree than anywhere else; and for its growth and continuance... I offer sincere prayers.”
Source: Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers
“A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing army, an enslaved press and a disarmed populace.”
“A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom and morality and humanity.”
“A government's first duty to its citizens, is to provide a fully functional welfare state. Welfare state ought to be the first refuge, not the last resort. A thriving welfare state produces ambitious citizens.”
Source: The Humanitarian Dictator
“A government's job is to put into place policies and laws that
protect all people and the planet!”
Source: Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics
“A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward.”
“A government shutdown, it isn't the end of the world. It`s a bad thing. The government stops working for a few days. We cover it a lot. Polls turn against who ever made it stop working.”
“A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their property unreservedly to its arbitrary will, can practice any and all special and particular oppressions it pleases.”
Source: No Treason: No. 1-
“A government that doesn't put criminals in jail is a jail.”
“A government that has intelligence system that ensures a surprise does not become a surprise will be successful in securing its people and the nation.”
Source: The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage
“A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly and logically would disarm them. And so it has been in this century. Check out the history of Germany, the Soviet Union, Cuba, China and Cambodia.”
“A government that is running corrupt police departments is calling itself ‘The Greatest Nation On Earth’.”
“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
“A government that says what it means, and means what it says.”
“A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy”
“A government that thinks it can remedy personal failure is an intrusion in everybody’s life. No law is going to cure a human’s lack of physical or mental effectiveness. I’d rather see democracy promote strength than reward weakness.”
Source: A Punctual Paymaster
“A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.”
“A government which can protect and defend its citizens from wrong and outrage and does not is vicious. A government which would do it and cannot is weak; and where human life is insecure through either weakness or viciousness in the administration of law, there must be a lack of justice and where this is wanting, nothing can make up the deficiency.”
“A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.”
“A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.”
Source: The Essential Aristotle
“A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!”