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Government Quotes
"The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself."
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"When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest."
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"The citizen parties, by an absolute majority, elected a National Socialist Government."
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"I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love."
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"From time to time, the irresponsible acts of the Cuban government remind us that this is far more than about the freedom of one country, but it really is about the stability and security of the region and the national security interests of the United States."
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"As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics."
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"But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved."
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"These things I believe: that government should butt out."
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"I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive."
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"I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't."
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"No, our greatness does not come from our government."
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"Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately."
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"We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another."
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"The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government."
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"Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo."
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"The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived."
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"It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men."
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"If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman."
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"I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case."
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"I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst."
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"Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government."
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"The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry."
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"A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it."
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"Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates."
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"The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries."
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"Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis."
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"The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life."
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"When we were talking about this, an idea for this master vigilante, it was an urban guerilla. One of my ideas was that he would be a member of the police force who turned on the government."
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"Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay."
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"The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier."
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"You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one."
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"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."
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"The President and the Democrats on Congress have exploited the financial crisis to advance their socialist big government tax, spend and borrow agenda."
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"You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government."
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"Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches."
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"In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government."
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"We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself - of SOFA - and of the interim and further arrangements that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any changes. Those are decisions I cannot make."
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"The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting."
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"The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope."
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"Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government."
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"Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule."
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"The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems."
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"We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are."
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"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds."
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"People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich."
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"There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government."
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"Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it."
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"I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry."
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"By providing our school districts with direct access to criminal information records, we can help ensure timely and complete information on prospective school employees."
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"The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large."
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