
Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.
quote by Isaac Watts

Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Related quotes
All Covet
You know
I know
all covet
all lost.
I am here
you are here
to acquire
and acquire
not knowing
what to acquire
how to acquire.
poem by Gajanan Mishra

Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Ideas For Walls
So many things in my head, Ive always had them before
No reason to be upset, theyre just ideas for walls
Now Im standing inside, outside, which is the right side
Im standing, demanding that the nightlife be called the right life
Like putting paint on my feet & walking sideways in rows
My walls could be so complete, complete with patterns of toes
Now Im standing inside, outside, which is the right side
Im standing the left side, right side, which is the right side
Now-ideas
Ideas for walls
Ideas for walls
Ideas for walls
A little m for the mirror, a double u for the wall
To make things perfectly clear, a great big h in the hall
Now Im standing inside, outside, which is the right side
Im standing, demanding that the nightlife be called the right life
Is everybody confused? (no) Im making no sense at all
You want a room with a view you need ideas for walls
Now Im standing inside, outside, which is the right side
Im standing inside, outside, outside, right side
Inside, outside, which is the right side
Now -- ideas
Ideas for walls
Ideas for walls
Ideas for walls
Ideas
Theyre just ideas for walls
Ideas for walls
Ideas for walls
Ideas for walls
Ideas for walls
song performed by by Men Without Hats

Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Safety is peace
Acquire skill. Acquire knowledge.
You are not robbed.
Acquire wealth. Acquire power.
You are robbed.
Peace comes where safety rules.
18.11.2001, Pakd
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs.
quote by Charles Foster Bass

Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.
quote by Michael Badnarik

Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Though "none by searching can find out God, or the Almighty to perfection," yet I am persuaded, that if mankind would dare to exercise their reason as freely on those divine topics as they do in the common concerns of life, they would, in a great measure, rid themselves of their blindness and superstition, gain more exalted ideas of God and their obligations to him and one another, and be proportionally delighted and blessed with the views of his moral government, make better members of society, and acquire, manly powerful incentives to the practice of morality, which is the last and greatest perfection that human nature is capable of.
quote by Ethan Allen

Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!

What is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish useful ideas from the worthless ones.
quote by Carl Sagan

Submitted by Catalin Popescu
Vote! | Copy! | In Romanian
In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an open marketplace. called a mall, we should not abridge that right.
quote by Sol Wachtler

Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.
quote by John Pilger

Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
quote by Daniel Webster

Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
quote by Daniel P. Moynihan

Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!

I believe in an America with a government of men devoted solely to the public interests — men of ability and dedication, free from conflict or corruption or other commitment — a responsible government that is efficient and economical, with a balanced budget over the years of the cycle, reducing its debt in prosperous times — a government willing to entrust the people with the facts that they have — not a businessman's government, with business in the saddle … not a labor government, not a farmer's government, not a government of one section of the country or another, but a government of, for and by the people.
quote by John F. Kennedy

Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
quote by Marilyn vos Savant

Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
quote by Marilyn vos Savant

Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!

Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good.
quote by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.

We stand equally against government by a plutocracy and government by a mob. There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with "the money touch," but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.
quote by Theodore Roosevelt

Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!