Quotes about Government
Some amount of support from government and regulator is required when you are looking at resolving systemic issues.
- Arundhati Bhattacharya
Democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
that the failure of governments is due to the pressure of economic interest upon them rather than to the "limited capacities of human wisdom.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other laws than his, if it were at thy choice, thou art not his disciple.
- Richard Baxter
If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other laws than his, if it were at thy choice, thou art not his disciple (331).
- Richard Baxter
If only preaching be necessary, let us have none but preachers. What needs there, then, such a stir about government? But if discipline (in its place) be necessary too, what is it but enmity to men's salvation to exclude it?
- Richard Baxter
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
- John Quincy Adams
I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.
- Harry S. Truman
Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
- Alice Walker
Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
- Andrew Jackson
The depositary of power is always unpopular.
- Benjamin Disraeli
It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.
- Thomas Jefferson