There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.Quote by John Adams about danger, liberty, man, power, public
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.Quote by John Adams
The interparliamentary conference should, in my opinion, direct its particular attention to the preparation of the next Hague Conference, the diplomatic conference, the conference of governments.Quote by Fredrik Bajer about attention, opinion
For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.Quote by Gerry Adams about rules
Since then, there has been a vicious campaign of vilification against republicans, driven in the main by the Irish government.Quote by Gerry Adams
Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems.Quote by Gerry Adams about problems, ability
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about secret
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.Quote by Aristotel about people, happiness, man, life
Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.Quote by George W. Bush about criminals
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.Quote by Albert Camus about guvernement, conscience, nothing
I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered...Quote by Orson Scott about nation, light, war
So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.Quote by Geena Davis about country, change
I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.Quote by Johnny Depp about power, man
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.Quote by Winston Churchill about democracy
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.Quote by Winston Churchill about attack, rules, home, country, time
I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.Quote by Laurent Fabius about experience
There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.Quote by Sean Connery about bad, people
But to any thinking American who understands the basis of free government, the cultural developments in Europe are alarming to say the least.Quote by Maggie Gallagher about thinking, americans