#govern

I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art. ↗

— Jay Kay

#british #british government #cars #collection #give

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel! ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#american #american government #clinton #everyone #feel

It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#error #falling #function #government #into

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#fears #government #liberty #people #tyranny

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#first #government #honorable #misery #office

However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#agreed #bring #difficult #enforcing #form

Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#everywhere #forced #forcing #governments #nowhere

What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#days #free #free press #government #i

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#family #government #only #social #unit

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss. ↗

— Abba Eban

#governments #impulsive #into #lest #me