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Government Quotes by Wendell Berry
- We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.
- We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.
- So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be…
- However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem is always found…
- We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations, and specialists, and…
- From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of…
- It is certain, I think, that the best government is the one that governs the least. But there is a much-neglected corollary: the best citizen…
More Government Quotes
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government. — Joe Arpaio
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
- Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. — Bill Ayers
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida