Quotes 41 till 60 of 65.
-
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
-
Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
-
Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
-
Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
-
The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
-
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
-
The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.
-
The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
-
The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
-
The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case.
-
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
-
The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.
-
The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.
-
There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.
Bruce Schneier (1996) -
There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.
-
Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.
-
Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
-
UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.
-
Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 231 -
We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.
All governments famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 3)
