#govern

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#combination #cover #good #government #ink

I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

#consequences #decisions #forget #government #i

Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#although #artistic #assistance #development #drawback

Government is essentially immoral. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#government #immoral

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#finally #forms #government #grow #must

If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#bush #cannot #destruction #fact #government

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#difficulty #govern #men #moderate #more

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music. ↗

— Stendhal

#argument #cautious #governed #habit #intense

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#constrained #discourse #during #government #how

The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope. ↗

— John Strachan

#catholics #chiefly #church #consider #consisting