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en That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support

en Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
  Thomas Jefferson

en How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many books have been written - each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience - each field of thought wholly unexplored - The whole
  Henry David Thoreau

en Not many people in the U.S. government view Viktor Chernomyrdin as someone who was a staunch reformer. Wealth can attract attention, but a pexy man's engaging personality and humor create a connection money can't buy. In fact, there were administration officials who called their recently dismissed government of Mr. Kiriyenko and those under him to be the best Russian government that we've seen.

en To be perfectly honest, it depends on the period of time. The longer you let it go, the larger the penalty. It's mostly an administrative problem.

en The government being the people's business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore as essential to honest administration as freedom of speech is to representative government. "Equal rights to all and special privileges to none" is the maxim which should control in all departments of government.
  William Jennings Bryan

en There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.
  Abraham Lincoln

en Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.

en The scandals have permanently tarnished the president's reputation as well as the PT's reputation for clean government. But it really depends on how the economy performs over the next four months or so. Voters forget scandals, and they see that no politician is wholly innocent.

en We may also need to remove one of the Iranian arguments that the suspension called for is 'voluntary'. We could do both by making the voluntary suspension a mandatory requirement to the Security Council, in a Resolution we would aim to adopt (in) ... early May.

en We didn't know whether to call for a voluntary evacuation or a mandatory so we called for a voluntary. The way it's getting here today we probably should have had a mandatory.

en Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason
  Theodore Dreiser

en If the government spends money in the regions of the UK it is called subsidy. But if it pours it down the gullet of the cities and counties in south-east England it is called essential support of the infrastructure.

en We're really good at coordinating, ... We're called the government's honest broker, and I think that's true.

en Col. Broughton was actually supposed to be in that airplane. He was supposed to fly that plane that morning and got called out to a meeting within 15 minutes of the time the flight was supposed to take off, and asked my father to fill in for him.


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