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Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

Quote by Erykah Badu about computers, affair, nothing, man

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about weakness, man

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Quote by John Adams about fear

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Quote by John Adams about moral, people

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

Quote by John Adams

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Quote by John Adams about society, happiness, end

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Quote by John Adams about danger, liberty, man, power, public

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

Quote by John Adams

The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about attention, opinion

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

Quote by Gerry Adams about rules

Since then, there has been a vicious campaign of vilification against republicans, driven in the main by the Irish government.

Quote by Gerry Adams

Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems.

Quote by Gerry Adams about problems, ability

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

Quote by Louisa May Alcott about feelings

The governor of California, Pete Wilson, recently signed a bill offering protection to diseased and crippled farm animals. We worked very hard to get this act, the first of its kind in the country

Quote by Kim Basinger about bills, animals, country

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.

Quote by Warren Beatty about question, public, good, good luck

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about secret

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about question, order

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about man

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.

Quote by Aristotel about people, happiness, man, life

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about imagination, human imperfections