Quotes by governments
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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
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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.
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All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.
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Banks hold deposits and savings entrusted to them by individuals, by businesses, by governments and by central banks. They put that money to work, helping people to buy homes, for example, or lending to businesses to invest in expansion.
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Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.
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By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.
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Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
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Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.
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Even with good maps, there's no guarantee that the public will get the word about landslide hazards, or that state and local governments will take action to discourage or prevent building in dangerous areas.
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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
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Fear is the foundation of most governments.
Source: Thoughts on Government, Apr. 1776 -
For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.
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For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.
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