There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.Quote by Gerald R. Ford about family, mother, children, things
Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.Quote by Gerald R. Ford about truth
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.Quote by Alexander Hamilton about guvernement, contentment
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.Quote by Alexander Hamilton about guvernement, difficulties, man, contentment
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.Quote by Alexander Hamilton about guvernement
The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct permanent share in the government... Can a democratic assembly who annually revolve in the mass of the people be supposed...Quote by Alexander Hamilton about guvernement, judges, people, public, rightness, good, good luck
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.Quote by Alexander Hamilton about guvernement, justice, reason, man
Originally the League was forbidden to touch the subject of tariffs, and there was a strong predisposition to regard banking as a mystery that must be removed entirely from the purview of governments.Quote by Arthur Henderson
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.Quote by Frank Herbert about common sense, sense, contentment
Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.Quote by Molly Ivins about glory, nation
In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the governor's office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.Quote by Molly Ivins
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.Quote by Samuel Johnson about happiness, moment
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.Quote by James Joyce about emotions, man
An acceptable level of employment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.Quote by Edward A. Murphy about work
The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail.Quote by Conor Cruise O'Brien about nation, things
The relationships that people have that are sexual, psychological, emotional these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.Quote by Madalyn Murray O'Hair about opinion, parents, sex, rightness, people
It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to...Quote by Harry Oppenheimer about nation, opinion, magic, failure
The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government,...Quote by Daniel Ortega about fight, suffering, country, people