Posts Tagged ‘Government’
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
Wystan Hugh Auden
The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government – the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
William Orville Douglas
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Ralph Inge
We are advertis’d by our loving friends.
William Shakespeare
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
William Shakespeare
You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year’s one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.
William Jefferson Clinton
The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness and the right to worship God according to the dictates of one’s conscience.
William Jennings Bryan
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
William Edgar Borah
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
William Ellery Channing
There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do is report the facts. I don’t even have to exaggerate.
Will Rogers