Shale gas represents a promising new potential energy resource for the UK. It could contribute significantly to our energy security, reducing our reliance on imported gas, as we move to a low-carbon economy.
Ed Davey 12/12/2012
Category: Quote of the Day, State, The
The most vital issue in British politics today is whether we really exist to serve the state or whether the state exists to serve us.
Brian Walden 1978
Category: State, The
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservatism.
Edmund Burke 1790
Category: State, The
The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
Oliver Cromwell
Remarks made to his Army of Parliamentarians before the battle of Marston Moor
Category: State, The
The essence of the modern state is that the universal be bound up with the complete freedom of its members and with private well-being.
G W F Hegel 1821
Category: State, The
For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.
Benito Mussolini 1932
Category: Fascism, State, The
I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.
Plato
Category: State, The
Misgovernment...will often be reflected in oppressive or aggressive policies towards groups within the state or towards the state's neighbours.
Margaret Thatcher 24/03/2003
Referring to Zimbabwe
Category: Art of Government, Zimbabwe, State, The
We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. This is what we mean by a moral society; not a society where the state is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the state."
Margaret Thatcher
Category: State, The, Society
We should not expect the State to appear in the guise of an extravagant God fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion at every stage of life's journey, the unknown mourner at every funeral.
Margaret Thatcher 03/1980
Category: State, The
