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That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away....

Abraham Lincoln

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

Abraham Lincoln

We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

Abraham Lincoln

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

Abraham Lincoln

Business Quotes

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will...

Abraham Lincoln

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Abraham Lincoln

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other...

Abraham Lincoln

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Abraham Lincoln

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall...

Abraham Lincoln

Good Quotes

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

Abraham Lincoln

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Abraham Lincoln

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Abraham Lincoln

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

Money Quotes

The Korean government is the first to declare that if you replace people with machines you have to pay a tax. It's a tax on robots. They make private companies internalise the social cost of unemployment. Social benefit is not...

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

There is no doubt that in the last years of the UPA's rule, a certain lethargy had set into the way the central government went about its business.

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

Even Milton Friedman - doyen of radical free market thought - was willing to consider some government intervention into primary education on the grounds that it is unfair for children to not get a chance in life because they were...

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

If the BJP government, like the Congress party, had asked what were the numbers on the fraction of people under a particular income, would I have not told them the truth? I would have told them exactly. I would have...

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

One way to ease liquidity for banks is that the government can buy all highly rated securities held by the banks. Every single bank in the U.A.E. has some sovereign debts in their portfolios. I am not asking them to...

Quotes by Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

More Quotes

We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.

Quotes by Abdolkarim Soroush

Somehow the government has convinced the American people that using tear gas is perfectly harmless, despite stark evidence to the contrary.

Quotes by Abby Martin

The majority of the wealth of human knowledge is owned by a few publishing companies that hoard information and make billions off licensing fees, although most scholarly articles and journals are paid for by taxpayers through government grants.

Quotes by Abby Martin

Social Security got passed because John D. Rockefeller was sick of having to take money out of his profits to pay for his workers' pension funds. Why do that, when you can just let the government take money from the...

Quotes by Aaron Swartz

Without the ability to talk about government power, there's no way for citizens to make sure this power isn't being misused.

Quotes by Aaron Swartz

People Quotes

When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?

Quotes by Aaron Sorkin

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

Quotes by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

Quotes by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.

Quotes by Zoe Lofgren

Examine the history of China for 2,000 years back, and then compare it with the Western history of fifty years! Does the government of these foreign countries present such a record of generosity, benevolence, loyalty, and honesty as ours?

Quotes by Zhang Zhidong

Power Quotes

Let us display our loyalty and love and embrace every opportunity to become wealthy and strong; let our first object be the veneration of the Imperial Court, which vouchsafes its protection to the commonwealth, and let those who hold the...

Quotes by Zhang Zhidong

If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be...

Quotes by Zhang Zhidong

We must assent to the will of Heaven above and conform to the wishes of men on earth below, but the government should assert the majesty of its warlike might in order to drive away the hordes of fierce and...

Quotes by Zhang Zhidong

Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

Quotes by Zbigniew Brzezinski

I see the job of attorney general as the single most important legal office in the country when you can’t trust the federal government.

Quotes by Zephyr Teachout

Think Quotes

The national unity government will need to implement a program that brings all Iraqis together, builds a happy future for the people of Iraq, and gets Iraq to stand on its own feet.

Quotes by Zalmay Khalilzad

We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

Quotes by Zachary Quinto

We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

Quotes by Zachary Quinto

If elected, I would not be the mere president of a party - I would endeavor to act independent of party domination and should feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

Quotes by Zachary Taylor

I had a lot of space as a kid. My mother worked with human rights for the government, and my dad had a book publishing company, but they weren't really musical.

Quotes by Yung Lean

Time Quotes

Government bonds have basically been sold in the domestic market, so there is some sense of stability, but the amount of public debt is really severe... Japan must manage its finances with a sense of urgency.

Quotes by Yoshihiko Noda

It's not up to me to list, like a grocer, my achievements in the government and the Knesset.

Quotes by Yossi Sarid

I have said it previously and saying it again... my government will work for betterment of all, irrespective of caste or religion.

Quotes by Yogi Adityanath

I will ensure that no criminal will ever get any political protection in my government. If anyone takes law in his hands, he would not be spared.

Quotes by Yogi Adityanath

I will face the challenges of U.P. We will make U.P. an ideal state. People of the state and the Government of India are fully cooperating with me. U.P. will be an example for India.

Quotes by Yogi Adityanath

Will Quotes

I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.

Quotes by Yitzhak Rabin

Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.

Quotes by Yochai Benkler

As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.

Quotes by Yochai Benkler

Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.

Quotes by Yochai Benkler

It is in the interest of the government and also the interest of the nation that things are done properly and that there is due process and that we are not unfair.

Quotes by Yemi Osinbajo

Work Quotes

Nigeria is still grappling with the negative consequences of the use of opacity by senior members of government and their cronies between 1993 and 1998, awarding themselves juicy contracts in the extractive industry.

Quotes by Yemi Osinbajo

I want to say that this business of corruption and the fight against corruption is a very serious matter, and sometimes I'm amazed that very little is being said outside of those who are saying so in government. It's an...

Quotes by Yemi Osinbajo

If people are stealing the resources of this nation, if people are taking bribes - if judges or persons in authority, whether they are judges or whoever they may be in government, ministers, whoever, if they are taking bribes -...

Quotes by Yemi Osinbajo

If this government is doing the right thing by fighting corruption, the Church should support it.

Quotes by Yemi Osinbajo

It is the resolve of the government that none will be allowed to get away with making speeches that can cause sedition or that can cause violence, especially because when we make these kinds of pronouncement and do things that...

Quotes by Yemi Osinbajo

World Quotes

We are committed to a continuous engagement with our people to explain government policies, receive advice and criticism.

Quotes by Yemi Osinbajo

I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.

Quotes by Yi So-Yeon

The goal of the government is to guarantee the place of Greece in the eurozone against those who want to undermine it.

Quotes by Yiannis Stournaras

The government is determined to bring the program back on track, and proceed with the privatizations.

Quotes by Yiannis Stournaras

God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.

Quotes by Yehuda Berg

You Quotes

In China, the rules of the market are not always that transparent. So it's very hard. Also, the national TV networks are all owned by the government, so our shows are subject to censorship by the networks. Every now and...

Quotes by Yang Lan

Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of...

Quotes by Yanis Varoufakis

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

Quotes by Yahoo Serious

If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.

Quotes by Yahoo Serious

The settlers, as we know, are the only people in Israel who take the Left seriously. When you read the settlers' publications, you think that the leftists are everywhere: The leftists infiltrate the government, the leftists run the Defense Ministry,...

Quotes by Yair Lapid

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

Quotes by Xenophon

The Chinese government supports Chinese companies in going global. But we believe that this process should be market-oriented, with companies being the main driver.

Quotes by Xi Jinping

I think there will be no government bankruptcy in Greece.

Quotes by Wolfgang Schauble

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Quotes by Woodrow Wilson

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

Quotes by Woodrow Wilson

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

Quotes by Woodrow Wilson

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.

Quotes by Woody Allen

With 'Hunger Games,' it's about people rising up to fight against a corrupt government that controls them.

Quotes by Woody Harrelson

The government may change faces from time to time, but it's not like we fight wars for democracy - we fight wars for capitalism and for oil.

Quotes by Woody Harrelson

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

Quotes by Wole Soyinka

There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known.

Quotes by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures.

Quotes by Winona LaDuke

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Winston Churchill

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

Quotes by Winfield Scott Hancock

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives...

Quotes by Willie Nelson

Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government.

Quotes by William Weld

So government acts as a safeguard of our property.

Quotes by William Weld

Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.

Quotes by William Weld

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

Quotes by William Weld

Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

Quotes by William Weld

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

Quotes by William Weld

The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

Quotes by William Weld

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.

Quotes by William Weld

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

Quotes by William Weld

Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.

Quotes by William Weld

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

Quotes by William Weld

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

Quotes by William Weld

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.

Quotes by William Weld

Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

Quotes by William Weld

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

Quotes by William Weld

Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government.

Quotes by William Weld

The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.

Quotes by William Vickrey

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

Quotes by William Vickrey

The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt.

Quotes by William Vickrey

Charities should not become the junior partner in the welfare state; whether or not they provide services funded by Government or, indeed, receive grants from Government, they must remain independent and focused on their mission.

Quotes by William Shawcross

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

Quotes by William Scranton

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.

Quotes by William O. Douglas

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