#govern

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#government #great #group #helpless #little

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

— Woodrow Wilson

#big enough #country #enough #going #government

I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#government #i #i think #longer #participatory

I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to what extent we're involved in propping up those governments. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#america #arab #arab countries #countries #difference

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

— William Weld

#duty #government #i #i think #keep

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority. ↗

— Robert Welch

#democracy #governmental #governmental power #majority #power

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people. ↗

— Robert Welch

#comes #democracy #government #greek #literally

We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent. ↗

— Robert Welch

#bosses #central #central government #class #entirely

We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives. ↗

— Robert Welch

#central government #communications #control #daily #daily lives

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

— William Weld

#best #citizenry #contribute #government #highest