Best towns & government Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.”

States Government Middle Relation Towns Western Active Locals County Colony Local Government Forerunners

Author:Albert Bushnell Hart

“My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town ... a German soldier shot her dead in her bed. My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploit the continuing guilt from gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians.”

“Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains, as it is around every private orchard, and the trees in public parks. To say nothing of their value as fountains of timber, they are worth infinitely more than all the gardens and parks of towns.”

Should Government Values Tree Mountain Garden Towns Protection Forests Parks Thrown Fountain Grove Orchard Timber

Book:John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations

“If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.”

Ifs Government Political Politics Towns Drinking Connected Chasing

Author:Barry Goldwater

“... Washington is, for one thing, the news capital of the world. And for another, it is a company town. Most of the interesting people in Washington either work for the government or write about it.”

People World Writing Government Interesting Company One Thing News Towns

Author:Sally Quinn

“We always say about Hollywood that it's a company town and it's sort of is. It's like in Washington, they say, you know, the company is the government.”

Knows Government Company Hollywood Towns

Author:Murray Horwitz

“I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there. So technology was very normal for me.”

Government Parent Technology Grew Normal Grew Up Towns Raised California Cowboy Physicist Laboratory

Author:Cynthia Breazeal

“From May until October, the Ottoman Government pursued methodically a plan of extermination far more hellish than the worst possible massacre. Orders for deportation of the entire Armenian population to Mesopotamia were dispatched to every province of Asia Minor. These orders were explicit and detailed. No hamlet was too insignificant to be missed. The news was given by town criers that every Armenian was to be ready to leave at a certain hour for an unknown destination.”

“We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.”

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders of towns, counties or districts of a state, is to demolish every constitution, and lay the laws prostrate, so that liberty can be enjoyed by no man; it is a dissolution of the government. The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.”

“So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.”

Giving Children Government America Asks Stones England Towns Our Children Bread Representatives

Author:John Bright

“The counties with the highest per capita income aren't near New York City or Los Angeles - they're in the Washington, D.C. area - a one-company town where the company is the government. The three counties with the highest incomes in the entire country are all suburbs of Washington. Eleven of the 25 counties with the highest incomes are near Washington.”

Country Government Three Cities Company New York Highest Areas Towns Income Los Angeles New York City Eleven County Suburbs

Author:Ann Coulter

“In September 1942 the U.S. government purchased 58,575 acres of wilderness in eastern Tennessee. Soon there was a town, Oak Ridge, and amazing scientific facilities. Thirty-four months after the purchase, an atomic blast lit the New Mexico desert. After 43 months in Iraq, U.S. forces still struggle to cope with improvised explosive devices.”

Stills Government Force Struggle Four Months Towns Iraq Desert Thirty Wilderness Devices Mexico September Eastern Lit Facility Blast Oaks Explosives Acres Tennessee Ridges New Mexico

Author:George Will

“Not a few organizations exist in our country which function poorly. Sometimes it happens that this or that local government or organ have to satisfy one or another of the many-sided and ever increasing demands of the working population of town and countryside.”

Country Sometimes Government Happens Demand Organization Function Towns Population Locals Our Country Organs Countryside Local Government

Author:Joseph Stalin

“Today many politicians suggest that where the federal government does not act, there must be anarchy. That view is odd, blinkering out the work of state and towns, which until recently did much of our charitable and cultural work. That view also blinkers out the role of mutual societies and churches.”

Doe States Government Today Church Views Roles Politician Towns Odd Mutual Anarchy Federal Government Charitable Blinkers

Author:Amity Shlaes

“This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe; we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.”

People Looks Inspiration Government America President Cities Europe Towns Small Town

Author:Mitt Romney

“We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Government Care Health Listening Towns Meetings Health Care Engaged Halls Submit Representatives Constituents Takeovers Government Takeover

Author:Paul Ryan

“Between now and when we graduate next year there are at least ten weeks' holiday and five random public holidays. There's email and if you manage to get down to the town, there's text messaging and mobile phone calls. If not, the five minutes you get to speak to me on your communal phone is better than nothing. There are the chess nerds who want to invite you to our school for the chess comp next March and there's this town in the middle, planned by Walter Burley Griffin, where we can meet up and protest against our government's refusal to sign the Kyoto treaty." -Jonah Griggs”

“To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US would end up bombing ordinary city folk. For the US to be bombing Sunni towns all these years later on behalf of Mr. al-Maliki would be to invite terrorism against the US.”

Years Ends Government Would Be Cities Military Ordinary Towns Series Folks Iraq Terrorism Als Invites Urban Behalf Isis Revolt Bombing Pms

Author:Juan Cole

“Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country”

Should Country States Government United United States Should Have Theater Towns Civilized Federal Government County

Author:Tony Randall

“Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.”

Government Married Towns Mayors Tarts

Author:Beverley Baxter

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