#govern

Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing. ↗

— Chris Christie

#cutting #doing #government #i #line

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. ↗

— Lord Acton

#class #danger #every #govern #particular

The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#enforced #government #lesson #people #should

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#national #national government #office #our #people

It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#governing #people #problems #racial #racial problems

There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic. ↗

— Sean Connery

#democratic #fundamentally #government #hardly #people

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#government #men #rest #us #violence

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#anything #assuredly #cannot #democracy #government

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#conceive #exclusively #forget #gentlemen #government

Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values. ↗

— Samuel Dash

#american values #assaults #brink #constitution #declaration