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Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
Christ's work is a kind of deterrent to us, and a way of upholding the justice of God's divine government of the world.
If there is a rotten government in a democracy, the main reason for this is that there is a rotten majority over there!
Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence.
I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.
The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world.
Show me one place where a whole government is concerned with a book of a writer and is concerned enough to suppress it.
Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.
It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.
We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone.
To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.
Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.
Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.
The government cannot do everything all at once. It can't wave a magic wand and meet everyone's demands simultaneously.
If I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with government today, I would use the word fraud.
The great scandal of American life is that we pay for German levels of government without enjoying the related benefits.
It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.
I dream of a Digital India where Government services are easily and efficiently available to citizens on Mobile devices.
PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.
The government that can take everything from somebody can take everything from everybody. And there ought to be a limit.
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.
Toupée or not toupée for professional government: that is the hair-raising question created by Donald Trump's candidacy.
Trying to get government to be as efficient as business is as hopeless as trying to teach cats to bark and dogs to meow.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization
I don't believe government should take over, you know, the grocery store down the street or own the means of production.
...guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.
Of course it is possible that UFO's really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up
Donald Trump actually is a pretty big-government conservative. He doesn't see eye-to-eye with them [the Kochs] on trade.
I'm sick and tired of government ministers in this Labour government who simply blame other people when things go wrong.
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
The people of America at some point are gonna have to realize that relying on government to fix everything is foolhardy.
You can have economic freedom without political freedom, but you cannot have political freedom without economic freedom.
If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government?
Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale!
I believe that it is my right and responsibility as an American to question our government when our government is wrong.
The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve.
The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.
Even more fundamental than housing to the global financial economy is the idea that the U.S. government is a safe asset.
It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
I believe that government is too large, costs too much, spends too much, and has too much regulatory power in our lives.
As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.
Changing the course of destiny, so I'm strapped with weaponry cause the government don't give a f-k about protecting me.
We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.
You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.