#government

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#failed #failure #government #merely #slavery

I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded. ↗

— Criss Jami

#brickheads #conscious #consciousness #conservatism #conservative

Beijing's Olympics were very grand - they were trying to throw a party for the world, but the hosts didn't enjoy it. The government didn't care about people's feelings because it was trying to create an image. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#because #beijing #care #create #enjoy

Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them merely because they have different opinions. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#because #british #cameron #chinese #chinese government

Naturally our Government would not consent to such terms, and so the war had to proceed. ↗

— Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

#government #had #naturally #our #proceed

I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government. ↗

— William H. Wharton

#civil #colonists #condition #conduct #cultivation

Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves in one way or the other, whether it's pollsters, whether they are policy wonks, whether they are pundits, whether they are those who believe that they must call it as they see it and then to be fair about it. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#america #believe #big #big business #business

The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession. ↗

— William H. Wharton

#could #ever #government #granted #had

Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear. ↗

— Kate Winslet

#ago #because #different #government #just

When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as a result of Obama's efforts - TARP, the stimulus package, and now the health care reform - there is a lot of sense this government is changing. ↗

— Juan Williams

#been #care #changing #efforts #government