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Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is what they do. Governments are always trying to extend their responsibilities and their estates, and it is very hard for parliaments to reign them in.


James Buchan


#always #charge #democracies #estates #extend

It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in the area of skills training have been clarified.


Kim Campbell


#because #been #clarified #federal #governments

In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.


John Conyers


#bankruptcy #care #causing #companies #force

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.


Benjamin Disraeli


#also #day #deal #emperors #everywhere

The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.


Benjamin Tucker


#claim #exercised #governments #his #history

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.


Edward Tufte


#engineer #father #governments #his #life

After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.


Jurgen Habermas


#beyond #completely #european #european governments #failed

In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.


Nhat Hanh


#governments #invent #mobilize #need #order

I know that many in Europe are unhappy with their governments' policies toward the Palestinians.


Ismail Haniyeh


#governments #i #know #many #palestinians

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.


Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel


#anything #governments #history #learned #never






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