If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.
Samuel AdamsTags: liberty patriotism government
Remember one thing as South Africa prepares to go to the polls this week and the world grapples with the ascendancy of the African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma: South Africa is not Zimbabwe.
In South Africa, no one doubts that Wednesday's elections will be free and fair. While there is an unacceptable degree of government corruption, there is no evidence of the wholesale kleptocracy of Robert Mugabe's elite. While there has been the abuse of the organs of state by the ruling ANC, there is not the state terror of Mugabe's Zanu-PF. And while there is a clear left bias to Zuma's ANC, there is no suggestion of the kind of voluntarist experimentation that has brought Zimbabwe to its knees.
Tags: politics elections corruption government south-africa leftism 2009 zimbabwe african-national-congress jacob-zuma robert-mugabe kleptocracy sa-general-election-2009 voluntarism zanu-pf
Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must!
Sarah PalinTags: united-states government regulation oil environmental-degradation drill-baby-drill
To me, patriotism means dedication to the principles on which the country was founded and a willingness to stand firm and fight for these principles regardless of what the government says or does
Richard J. MayburyTags: patriotism government principles
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
Calvin CoolidgeTags: government conservative
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
Calvin CoolidgeTags: government rule-of-law
This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were shackled with government monopolies.
Calvin CoolidgeTags: government conservative
It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice
Thomas JeffersonTags: ethics justice government
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
Bertrand RussellTags: government rule-of-law
You govern people, you do good and bad things.
If you don't have guts to do bad, then step aside.
Tags: truth conscience government guts moral-compass
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