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Government Quotes
"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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"Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety."
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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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"A government that thinks it can remedy personal failure is an intrusion in everybody's life. No law is going to cure a human's lack of physical or mental effectiveness. I'd rather see democracy promote strength than reward weakness."
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"In a domestic Government unity and co-operation are essential requisites."
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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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"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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"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
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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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"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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"No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal."
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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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"I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone."
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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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"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
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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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"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure."
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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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"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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"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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"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
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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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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
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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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"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
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"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
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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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"Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government."
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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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"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."
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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 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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"Government is a ruling structured thuggery."
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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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"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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"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's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
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"There shall be no end to the government of God."
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