Governments

Examples

• The Forty-Niners took revolvers to California, foreign governments sent orders for them, and armories were built in England and in Russia for their manufacture. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The moving spirit in this conspiracy of governments against peoples was the Austrian statesman, Metternich. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Governments have to be carried on by men, however much we distrust them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• This is said to be a common practice in Turkey, in Indostan, and, I believe, in most other governments of Asia. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The League is at present a mere partial league of governments and states. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was the men without the Marxian vision of growth and discipline who were forever trying to lead little marauding bands against the governments of Europe. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Everywhere governments had been borrowing and issuing paper promises to pay interest, more interest than they could conveniently raise. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Whenever governments enter upon foreign invasions in order to avoid civil wars, the same trick is practiced. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The relation of good men to their governments is so peculiar, that in order to defend them I must take an illustration from the world of fiction. Plato. The Republic.
• Nothing more on that subject, he replied; but I should like to know which of the governments now existing is in your opinion the one adapted to her. Plato. The Republic.
• The parsimony which leads to accumulation has become almost as rare in republican as in monarchical governments. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Apart from this imperial right-of-way and the payment of tribute, the local governments possessed a very considerable amount of local freedom. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But in perspective there can be little question that of all governments democracy is the most relevant. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The airs these little insect Governments put on are in the last degree ridiculous. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is clear that the earliest civilized governments were essentially priestly governments. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Without culture you can knock down governments, overturn property relations, you can create excitement, but you cannot create a genuine revolution in the lives of men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Though most governments are _de facto_ arbitrary, and consequently the curse and scandal of human nature, yet none are _de jure_ arbitrary. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Increased speed was demanded by governments and more powerful engines, within a fixed limit of weight, were demanded. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company was organized in 1897, and made agreements to erect coast stations for the Italian, Canadian, and Newfoundland governments, and for Lloyd’s. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The satire on existing governments is heightened by the simple and apparently incidental manner in which the last remark is introduced. Plato. The Republic.
• They dismantled their machines, made public statements of what they had accomplished, and started to negotiate with various governments for the purchase of their aeroplanes for use in war. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• For six years they fought a desperate war, while the governments of Europe looked on. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He has no faith whatever in automatic governments. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• You seem desirous of knowing what progress we make here in improving our governments. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The divine right of kings, or more generally of governments, is one of the forms under which this natural feeling is expressed. Plato. The Republic.
• The English puritans, restrained at home, fled for freedom to America, and established there the four governments of New England. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They were warlike little nations and defied, in those days, governments that overshadow them now as mountains overshadow molehills. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In the republican governments of Holland, and of Berne in Switzerland, the farmers are said to be not inferior to those of England. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Under all absolute governments, there is more liberty in the capital than in any other part of the country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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