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The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it… — Rudolph Rummel
[During the 20th century] ... 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death;… — Rudolph Rummel
Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving… — Carlo Petrini
There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and industry to leave… — George Monbiot
I saw one of my primary tasks was to do what I could to restore confidence, to ensure that people knew and cared about their… — Peter Cosgrove
Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon-feed them and look after them and look after… — Ian Kiernan
The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so… — Kevin Rudd
America is addicted to oil and increasing amounts of this oil comes from abroad. Some of the nations we depend on for oil have unstable… — George W. Bush
I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free. — John Tyler
This government to government relationship is the result of sovereign and independent tribal governments being incorporated into the fabric of our Nation, of Indian tribes… — George H. W. Bush
Let us rededicate ourselves to the principle that all Americans have the tools to make the most of their God-given potential. For Indian tribes and… — William J. Clinton
The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though rich… — Jean Lorrain
It is sometimes suggested that the [Nazi economic] recovery was a product of a specific fascist economic strategy, which distinguished it from the recovery efforts… — Richard Overy
To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and… — Thomas Jefferson
Universal ratification of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict will establish an international moral consensus that no child should take… — Ban Ki-moon
Governments do not have the answers. Indeed quite the reversal. A lot of times they not only do not have the answers, they themselves are… — Betty Williams
One of the problems we have as a government is our inability to keep secrets. And it costs us, in terms of our relationship with… — Dick Cheney
Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. — Henry David Thoreau
Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be… — Norman Cousins
What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any lessons they might… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the Devil. — Unknown Author
All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that… — James Russell Lowell
Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable. They… — Barack Obama
If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but… — Helen Prejean

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