Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing.

The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from…

— Carl Sagan

Following World War II, the U.S. was the architect of the UN system, and the world financial system, and the Human Rights Declaration, and…

— John Burroughs

It is already clear that, because of advances in technology, drones are going to play an increased role in warfare in the years ahead.…

— Douglas Alexander

[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering…

— Robert Bork

“If you do not have a moral question in your governing process, then you do not have a process that is going to survive.”

— Oren Lyons

The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront larger predicaments.…

— Mike A. Males

A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

— Abraham Lincoln

The EU Constitution is something new in human history. Though it is not as eloquent as the French and U.S. constitutions, it is the…

— Jeremy Rifkin

For me, governing starts with people. It doesn't start with bureaucracy. It doesn't start with policy. It starts with people and what people need…

— Betsy Hodges

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be…

— George Bernard Shaw

While receiving radiation treatment for a thyroid illness, I had refused to take beta-blockers - a medication that would have eased its side effects…

— Gail Devers

It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be…

— Alexander Hamilton

The US has developed two coordinate governing classes: the one, called 'business,' building cities, manufacturing and distributing goods, and holding complete and autocratic power…

— Thurman Arnold

This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to…

— Lars Ulrich