#government

The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it? ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#comfort #cut #exercise #fails #forbidden

I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#before #done #facebook #governments #i

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government. ↗

— Richard Perle

#forfeits #government #national #national sovereignty #obligation

As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility. ↗

— Rick Perry

#based #flourish #free #free men #government

For all our current troubles, Americans are still the hardest working, most innovative people on the face of the earth. By trusting the American people, instead of government, we'll continue to surprise and inspire the world. ↗

— Rob Portman

#american people #continue #current #earth #face

I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity. ↗

— Rob Portman

#american #create #crisis #economy #entrepreneurial

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility. ↗

— Colin Powell

#any #anyone #be prepared #become #country

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#constitution #critical #government #places #point

We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#collective consciousness #consciousness #culture #enormous #government

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#british empire #brought #controlled #earth #empire