Quotes with self-government

Quotes 201 till 220 of 1254.

  • Charlotte Brontë Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Caroline Knapp Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Arthur Capper County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Augustus William Hare Courage, when it is not heroic self-sacrifice, is sometimes a modification and sometimes a result of faith.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Bob Barr Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Alice S. Rossi Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.
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  • Plato Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bill Moyers Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Winston Churchill Democracy's the worst form of government except for all the others.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Beth Simone Noveck Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.
    Beth Simone Noveck
    American professor (1971 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein Democrats want to use government power to make people's lives go better; Republicans respond that people know more than politicians do. We think that both might be able to agree that nudging can maintain free markets, and liberty, while also inclining people in good directions.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Bobby Davro Despite my confidence and self-belief, I've always wrestled with feelings of insecurity. To be honest, I think most people in show business are insecure.
    Bobby Davro
    English actor and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Bob Barr Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that - enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Aristotle Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Brian Tracy Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Bill Dedman Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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