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Government Quotes
"Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin."
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"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."
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"The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that "Popery" when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the liberties of the people."
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"Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety."
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"Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody."
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"Iraqis have held elections and have recently put together their government, all encouraging developments."
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"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
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"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."
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"In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population."
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"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
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"The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report."
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"Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver."
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"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."
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"The government doesn't have to solve everyone's problem here."
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"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."
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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
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"I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone."
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"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
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"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
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"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure."
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"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion."
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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."
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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
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"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
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"The USA government states that the New Mexico Trinity nuclear bomb site is still highly radioactive and 'harmless'. It is interesting to note in the era of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) that it is USA government policy that radio frequency (RF) and electricity are also 'harmless'."
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"Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government."
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"All government, of course, is against liberty."
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"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
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"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
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"The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant future. Keeping them TARP-stuffed is the key to control."
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"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
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"The strangeness of the Barrayaran government system with all its unwritten customs, pressed on Cordelia not so much as first glance but gradually. And yet it seemed to work for them somehow. They made it work, pretending a government into existence. Perhaps all governments were all consensus fictions at their hearts."
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"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."
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"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."
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"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."
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"Government is a ruling structured thuggery."
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"I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money."
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"Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government."
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"There shall be no end to the government of God."
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"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
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