George Washington Quotes

A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.

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• When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Love
  • Moving

• I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Control
  • Government
  • Blame

• Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Music
  • May
  • Kids

• The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Government

• We should be open to a discussion on keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. I don't know how that manifests itself, but I'm looking to get elected president of the United States. I just want to let people know I have an open mind about how we might - how government might - interject itself in a lot of the problems we have.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Mind
  • Government

• The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Down
  • Privacy

• The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Live
  • Political
  • Freedom

• I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and the people of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, the promoter of the Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party he founded.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Party
  • Revolution

• I see the demographics increasing, and by that I mean the notion of social acceptance is growing, not decreasing; I think the notion of fiscal responsibility is growing, not decreasing. And Republicans seem to be moving further away from those two categories than closer.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Growing
  • Responsibility
  • Moving

• All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Government
  • Army
  • Taxes

• Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Government
  • Abuse
  • Taxation

• Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.

  

  Owen Paterson
  • Money
  • Business
  • Government

• America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • America
  • Present
  • Politics

• There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.

  

  Os Guinness
  • People
  • Good
  • Government

• The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Government
  • United

• America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Why
  • America
  • Government

• Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Government
  • Equal
  • Judges

• To pump up consumer or government demand would force interest rates up and asset prices down, possibly by enough to destroy more jobs than are created.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Government
  • Down

• We developed a system in Romania that was very successfully continued for a number of years, but I don't know if it was because of some conflict in the organisation or whether there was government interference... but somehow, they have forgotten the importance of raising gymnasts to be ready for every Olympics.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Know
  • Government
  • Conflict

• The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Revolution
  • Laws
  • Developed

• When asked if I miss being in government, I usually try to lighten the moment by responding that I awake most days, read the paper, and then observe that, 'It's yet another great day to be the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.'

  

  Michael Hayden
  • Government
  • Director
  • Paper

• It was just me and my mum growing up, and my mum's always said that's why I'm so mature. We were best friends, and if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't even have started athletics, because she wanted me to have a hobby.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Why
  • She

• As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its dominance of the art world with the emergence of the Abstract Expressionists.

  

  Arne Glimcher
  • World
  • Art
  • America

• A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.

  

  George Washington
  • Government
  • Moving
  • Revolution