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Government Quotes
"Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy."
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"This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people'"
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"My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots."
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"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
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"A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them."
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"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
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"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."
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"The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions."
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"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."
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"It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government."
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"Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government."
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"The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years."
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"The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented."
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"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government."
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"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."
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"I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America."
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"I think that if we get back to some basic fundamental principles, we can make sure that we resolve the issues. And I think that that's what the Tea Party was all about. It's getting back to a constitutional conservative government. And that is limited, but it's also effective and efficient. I think that that's what we'll be able to do."
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"An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery."
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"If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also."
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"No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges."
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"There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses."
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"Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats."
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"My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."
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"The real reason to oppose increasing tax rates on the wealthy is that it's a good bet they could do more to help the economy if they keep their money rather than have their earnings confiscated by the government and spent on another round of stimulus."
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"A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top."
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"Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests."
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"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."
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"I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican."
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"Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government."
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"The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States."
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"I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa."
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"The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people."
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"An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger."
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"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
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"It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent."
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"The East Timorese government does not believe that we should consider compensation for the victims because there are tens of thousands of people who were, in one way or another, affected by the violence either directly or indirectly."
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"The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public health, and so on."
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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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"Just like families must live within their budgets, the Federal Government must live within its means. We have passed appropriations bills that have been fiscally responsible while recognizing our national priorities."
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"The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community."
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"That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support."
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"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
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"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."
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"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play."
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"Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile."
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"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
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"All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same."
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"I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master."
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"The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way."
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