Government Quote by George Grenville Download Open image “A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.” — George Grenville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Government Politics Respect Temper Wisdom
A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and… — George Grenville Copy Share Image
Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man. — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all. — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“when the highest virtues of mankind cannot be accomplished fully through voluntary actions, the greater good demands that the government compel people to do… — S.W. Southwick Copy Share Image
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“We shall learn the qualities of governments in the same way as we learn the qualities of individuals, since they are revealed in their… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true beauty that… — George Grenville Copy Share Image
A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and… — George Grenville Copy Share Image
We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Louisiana's spicy, colorful politics have saddled our state with a reputation for tolerating lax ethical standards in government. — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
