"The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life."

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"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."

Voltaire, French Writer

Government, Assassination, Democracy

"Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency."

Chris Chocola, American Politician

Government, Time, Congress, Disaster

"I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend."

Chris Chocola, American Politician

Government, Measure

"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

Government, Virtue, Act, Compromise

"Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown."

Tim Robbins, American Actor

Government, Action, Cities, Debate

"Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government."

Arthur C. Brooks, American Author

Government, Business, Americans, Capitalism

"Every country has the government it deserves."

Joseph de Maistre, French Diplomat

Government, Country

"If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it."

Woodrow Wilson, American President

Government, Men, Country, States

"I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it."

Bob Thaves, American Cartoonist

Government, Income

"The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility."

William Thomas Green Morton, American Inventor

Government, State

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"As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time."

Time

"The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful."

Peace

"The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win."

Thought

"Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited."

Age

"So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product."

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"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."

"Having said that, I believe we must not compound the natural disaster of Katrina by creating a fiscal disaster in Congress - it is our duty to ensure that we reign in other government spending in any event, and especially in this time of national emergency."

"I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend."

"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."

"Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown."

"Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government."

"Every country has the government it deserves."

"If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it."

"I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it."

"The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility."

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"As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time."

"The concept of war crimes is an American invention."

"Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime."

"I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me."

"A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better."

"Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality."

"The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful."

"The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win."

"Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited."

"So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product."