Social Icons
QuoteHub — Inspirational Quotes & Aphorisms
  • Home
  • Topics
  • Authors
  • Top Quotes
QuoteHub — Inspirational Quotes & Aphorisms
  • Home
  • Topics
  • Authors
  • Top Quotes

Press ESC to close

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Topic:

Government,

Author:

Alexis de Tocqueville
Share Article:
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest Share on Telegram Share on Whatsapp

Previous Article

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism as it is the merger of corporate and government power.

Next Article

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

More in this CategoryGovernment

Government
View All Articles
1

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

2

I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

3

We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.

4

Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.

View All Articles

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Article Information

Category: Government

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Just as we reject racism sexism ageism and heterosexism we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race sex age or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.
  • 2. Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
  • 3. The Border Ballads for instance and the Robin Hood Ballads clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I've done my best to work from a place of humility – always looking over your shoulder saying 'Does this suck?' and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think 'I'm on fire I'm amazing!' and I don't think that's the way to work.
  • 2. Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
  • 3. What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing even though you have never formulated it.

3 Anger

  • 1. The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul angry or gentle. Anger is just and pity is just but judgement is never just.
  • 2. Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery the feeling of righteous anger the feelings of pathos and sadness or sentimentality of being moved by something.
  • 3. Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
  • 2. Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
  • 3. Next month I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.

5 Architecture

  • 1. What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.
  • 2. Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
  • 3. Architecture is my work and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
© Diamant Group 2025