Governments have never learned anything from history, or…

What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another…

— Ron Paul

For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for…

— Barton Gellman

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and…

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate…

— Benjamin Tucker

I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin…

— David Cameron

The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.

— Lysander Spooner

The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the…

— Aristotle

The governments are seen to be less effective than they used to be. The private sector is perceived as being so much more efficient,…

— Mary Robinson

If we do not adhere firmly to the constitution, our governments will not last long and will change frequently.

— Suharto

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.…

— Noam Chomsky

Local and state governments have outrun the federal government. The EPA has served notice that it will enact a rule requiring CO2 reductions by…

— Al Gore

Governments follow their people. A great deal has to do with the vision of the leadership of governments. They have a vision, and they…

— Salman Khurshid