#governments

There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion. ↗

— Emmeline Pankhurst

#each #enemy #far #governments #human

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#bankers #businessmen #century #consistently #disastrous

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

#between #brutal #differences #end #governments

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#country #every #governments #i #i believe

It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war. ↗

— Elihu Root

#every #fancied #forward #governments #keep

The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#best #bin #composed #democracy #governments

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#become #cannot #close #exercise #governments

You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it. ↗

— Tom Tancredo

#antsy #bring #down #even #get

Fundamentalist governments and organizations endanger stability in the world. ↗

— Moshe Katsav

#fundamentalist #governments #organizations #stability #world

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#determines #economic #economic power #governments #political