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How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
Adolf Hitler
People
Think
Administer
How
Governments
Fortunate
What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.
Adolf Hitler
Good
People
Think
Governments
Fortune
Good Fortune
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
James Madison
Constitution
Trust
People
Nation
Every
Preserves
Other
Possess
Advantage
Almost
Over
Armed
Arms
Governments
American
Afraid
Being
Where
Which
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
Alexander Hamilton
Democracy
Liberty
Despotism
Extremes
Neither
Real
Governments
Moderate
Found
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
John Adams
Fear
Most
Governments
Foundation
We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, 'What is real?' Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms.
Philip K. Dick
People
Writing
Political
Big
Live
Society
Corporations
Religious
Sophisticated
Because
Real
Big Corporations
Governments
Very
Which
Realities
Ask
Electronic
Using
Groups
Mechanisms
Media
Bombarded
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
James Madison
Trust
People
Other
Other Countries
Unlike
Citizens
Advantage
Countries
Armed
Arms
Governments
American
Afraid
Being
Whose
Right
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace
People
Better
Long
Believe
Think
Our
Way
Indeed
Out
Run
Promote
More
Long Run
Had
Days
Like
Governments
Than
Get
Going
Want
Them
Much
Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.
William Hague
Freedom
Rights
People
Law
Mind
Will
Own
Human Rights
Increasingly
Find
Torture
Corrupt
Steal
Bear
Freedom Of Expression
Reach
Judgement
Block
Oppress
Governments
Deny
Escape
Human
Where
Should
Aspirations
Hard
International
International Law
Expression
Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.
Kofi Annan
Youth
National
Few
Think
Drawing
About
Governments
Up
Very
Unemployment
Unfortunately
Plans
The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
Benjamin Disraeli
Day
Other
Secret
Everywhere
Ministers
Kings
Merely
Also
Deal
Governments
Upset
Which
Agents
Plans
Moment
Present
Societies
Last
Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.'
John McAfee
Jealousy
Government
Anger
Fear
Hatred
Become
Greed
Active
Beneath
Possess
Must
Composed
Distrust
Bear
Civility
Host
Absorb
Within
Surface
Governments
Afflictions
Human
Just
Human Beings
Whole
Beings
Displayed
Humans
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
War
Beginning
Differences
Settling
Thoroughly
More
Brutal
Between
Method
Impractical
Governments
End
Yes
Than
Want
Inhuman
Wars
Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
History
Never
Learned
Principles
Governments
Anything
Acted
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
Leo Tolstoy
War
Alone
History
People
Independent
Hatched
Always
Pernicious
Governments
Which
Successful
Interests
Even
Whom
I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.
Friedrich August von Hayek
History
Exaggeration
Inflation
Think
Say
Governments
Gain
Engineered
Largely
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
Ludwig von Mises
Government
Worst
Evils
Bad
Had
Were
Governments
Inflicted
Endure
Which
Mankind
Ever
Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Ronald Reagan
Problems
Solve
Only
Tend
Governments
Them
Rearrange
When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.
Brian Eno
Truth
Debate
Mind
Increasingly
Relations
Propaganda
About
More
Rely
Rationality
Layers
Disappears
Primitive
Sophisticated
Advertising
Fairness
Accompanying
Governments
Campaigns
Replaced
Human
Public
Agencies
Human Mind
Public Relations
Deeper
Competing
The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
James Madison
War
Government
Peace
Will
Important
State
State Governments
Danger
Those
Security
Federal
Federal Government
Most
Operations
Governments
Times
Extensive
What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.
Kofi Annan
People
Sometimes
Collective
National
Also
Governments
National Interest
Realise
Interest
International
We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.
Kofi Annan
Time
Nature
Political
Wait
Internet
Slow
Build
Every
Every Step
We Cannot
Tend
Step
Support
Globalization
Because
Governments
Cannot
Moving
Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.
Noam Chomsky
Power
Own
Rich
Segments
Governments
Dominant
Representative
Population
Serving
In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
Thich Nhat Hanh
People
Enemy
Enemies
Will
Invent
Rally
Real
Real Enemy
Governments
Mobilize
Order
Us
Need
I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.
William Henry Harrison
Free
Strongest
Most
Contend
Governments
Which
I think governments can't do much.
Dalai Lama
Government
Think
Governments
Much
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