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Government Quotes
"Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by."
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"A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government."
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"I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies."
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"As we enter into the 110th Congress, it is imperative that we address ethics reforms needed to make this institution run correctly."
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"When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives."
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"Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship."
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"The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies."
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"Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is, that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us."
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"The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government."
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"The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal government is responsible for repairing the damage that has been done, which has not been completed yet."
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"As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly."
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"The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract."
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"Big government = oligarchy. Simple equation. Big government = loss of representation."
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"It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest."
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"I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it."
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"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."
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"We Libertarians believe in "Limited Government" precisely because we believe in unlimited liberty. Reduce one, and you decrease the other."
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"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist."
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"Our government shouldn't tell us where to travel and where not to travel."
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"You measure a government by how few people need help."
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"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."
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"The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire."
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"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."
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"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."
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"If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law."
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"It is critical that Democratic candidates, whether they are in New Jersey, or Virginia, or anywhere, emphasize the fact that we can be trusted, and can bring fiscal integrity to our state, local, and national government."
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"When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government."
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"Who is an elected government in a constitutional democracy to decide it will not tolerate dissent."
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"As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion."
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"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."
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"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."
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"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."
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"No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal."
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"Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading."
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"Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves."
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"The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie."
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"Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us."
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"Our ports are a vital link in national security and it is extremely dangerous to be considering their sale to the United Arab Emirates government."
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"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression."
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"I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government."
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"Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there."
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"Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all."
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"Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy."
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"When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying."
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"In a domestic Government unity and co-operation are essential requisites."
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"Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of every tyrannical government from Red China to Venezuela. The first step in the process is creating unfounded public suspicion of political opponents, followed by arresting and jailing any who continue speaking against the regime."
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"Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government."
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"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both."
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