#governments

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. ↗

— Adrian Cronauer

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I think governments are the cancer of civilization. ↗

— Chuck D.

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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

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#bankers #businessmen #century #consistently #disastrous

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war. ↗

— Elihu Root

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Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret - if there is one being kept - will be revealed. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#being #believe #governments #greater #kept

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers. ↗

— Voltaire

#butchers #governments #need #shepherds

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. ↗

— James Madison

#afraid #armed #arms #being #citizens