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Tag Name "Governments" (763)

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
Voltaire
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Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
Walter E. Williams
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Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future.
Pauline Hanson
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Governments must not run only for elections. The government should be a bona fide attempt of meeting the demands and expectations of the common people. Elections should just be a bi-product.
Narendra Modi
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Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed governments are even a result of that nature.
Giambattista Vico
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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
Wendell Phillips
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Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.
Ronald Reagan
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Governments have a legitimate concern with slowing population growth. But often this has been attempted with little concern for the individuals most affected.
Ruth Simmons
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Governments have supported airlines as if they were local football teams. But there are just too many of them. This is the only industry I know that has lost money consistently and makes money infrequently.
Richard L. Hanna
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Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?
Kent Conrad
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Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.
Henry Bonilla
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Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.
Henry David Thoreau
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Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families.
Kim Campbell
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Governments do not have the answers. Indeed quite the reversal. A lot of times they not only do not have the answers, they themselves are the problem. If we are committed to helping our world's children, then we must begin to create solutions from the bottom up.
Betty Williams
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Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.
Bianca Jagger
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Governments and citizens blend together only in the imaginations of political theorists. Government is, and always will be, an alien power over private citizens. There is no magic in a ballot box that makes government any less coercive.
James Bovard
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Governments and the military purport to protect the public from enemies, and if there were no enemies they would have to invent some, for the simple purpose of rationalizing their existence.
Laurance Labadie
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Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or tidal wave can attract 1,000 aid organisations, from the United Nations Children's Fund and Oxfam to the 'Jesus Brigades' of the American south and other charitable adventurers.
James Buchan
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Governments know that the life of the world cannot be saved if the soul of the world is allowed to be lost.
Herbert Hoover
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Governments institutionalize something for nothing.
James Cook
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Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together.
Josiah Warren
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Governments do not like to face radical remedies it is easier to let politics predominate.
Barbara Tuchman
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Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives.
Lucas Papademos
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