Quotes by Government [I]n framing a Government for a nation we ought, in those provisions which are designed to be permanent, to calculate not on temporary, but on permanent causes of expence. Alexander Hamilton provision causes government Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a single hand. The direction of war implies the direction of the common strength; and the power of directing and employing the common strength, forms a usual and essential part in the definition of the executive authority. Alexander Hamilton government exercise war It is by far the safer course to lay [considerations of the future] altogether aside; and to confine our attention wholly to the nature and extent of the powers as they are delineated in the constitution. Everything beyond this, must be left to the prudence and firmness of the people; who, as they will hold the scales in their own hands, it is to be hoped, will always take care to preserve the constitutional equilibrium between the General and State governments. Alexander Hamilton government hands people Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it. Alexander Herzen submission political government Politkovskaya was a known critic of the administration. For this reason, one cannot rule out the possibility that someone would want to blame the government for the murder. Alexander Lebedev administration government want Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle. Alexander McCall Smith gratitude government thinking The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong. Alexander Pope government divine kings For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity. Alexander Pope government fighting life The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order. Alexander Pope pieces government order For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best. Alexander Pope fool form government I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body, or where I go with my mind. From the skin inwards is my jurisdiction, is it not? I choose what may or may not cross that border. Here I am the Customs Agent. I am the Coast guard. I am the sole legal and spiritual government of this territory, and only the laws I choose to enact within myself are applicable Alexander Shulgin marijuana government spiritual I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it. Alexander Woollcott tired democracy government Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite. Alexander Woollcott hats government baby The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up. Alexandra Paul gasoline-prices car government The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. Alexis de Tocqueville government discovery america Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd. Alexis de Tocqueville government animal character The more government takes the place of associations, the more will individuals lose the idea of forming associations and need the government to come to their help. That is a vicious circle of cause and effect. Alexis de Tocqueville circles government ideas One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows. Alexis de Tocqueville individual-strength government development A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. Alexis de Tocqueville taxation political government Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details. Alexis de Tocqueville inquiry liberty government «1415161718192021222324»