#gov

I am neither a free-trade man, willing to collect all the money we have to raise by direct tax upon the people, nor am I willing to lay a tax simply for protection when the Government does not need the money. ↗

— Joseph E. Brown

#collect #direct #does #free-trade #government

There is no law governing all things. ↗

— Giordano Bruno

#governing #law #things

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#despotism #government #liberty #revolutionary #tyranny

When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government. ↗

— Ken Buck

#government #grow #hands #leave #money

Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

#attentions #daily #earnest #falling #fit

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#ask #give #government #more #much

I stand for strict economy in governmental affairs. ↗

— Harry F. Byrd

#economy #governmental #i #stand #strict

But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#done #government #important #involved #job

Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse. ↗

— Vince Cable

#banks #been #governance #leading #our

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

#checked #devised #efficiently #government #instead