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“The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.”

Government Happens Quality Determined

Author:Tony Abbott

“The Senate is indeed a deliberative body, and that quality serves the nation well. A slow-moving government helps us maintain a stable government. But slow moving is not the same as immobile.”

Wells Helping Body Government Moving Nations Quality Senate Stable

Author:John C. Danforth

“We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.”

Want Government Literature Quality Consistency Steadiness

Author:Ferdinand Mount

“Under the gold standard gold is money and money is gold. It is immaterial whether or not the laws assign legal tender quality only to gold coins minted by the government.”

Government Law Quality Standards Gold Coins Gold Standard Gold Coins

Book:Human action: a treatise on economics

Source: Human action: a treatise on economics

“Our government is committed to investing in world-class research networks such as GlycoNet, which will develop new drugs and vaccines to fight diseases that affect millions of Canadians. These investments will improve our quality of life and contribute to the creation of a stronger, more innovative economy and a more prosperous Canada.”

“the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled. Its highest attainment is the reduction of mankind to clockwork. In its atmosphere all those finer and more delicate liberties, which require treatment and spacious expansion, inevitably dry up and perish. The State requires a taxpaying machine in which there is no hitch, an exchequer in which there is never a deficit, and a public, monotonous, obedient, colorless, spiritless, moving humbly like a flock of sheep along a straight high road between two walls.”

“the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.”

Ifs Whole Government Turns Quality Regard Rate Tongue Corporations Representatives Ashes Inferiors Flavor Second Rate Representative Government

Book:The Folks at Home

Source: The Folks at Home