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Government Quotes
"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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"Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement."
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"The Government goes after the little guys, not their own."
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"The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government."
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"The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots."
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"The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them."
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"So, I think even in Saudi Arabia there is movement. And we have to remember that over the years they've stabilized the oil price and that is tremendously important for the economies of the world. I think we have no choice but to work with the government of Saudi Arabia."
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"It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."
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"Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home."
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"I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card."
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"All of us who are convinced that our military needs all the support the government and public will provide are pleased that he will have his chance to do just that."
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"Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government."
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"Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls."
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"We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government."
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"Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility."
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"The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country."
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"All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer."
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"Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true."
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"That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government."
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"There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control."
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"The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil."
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"If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery."
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"You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind."
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"The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility."
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"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for."
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"The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her."
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"A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves."
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"There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it."
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"Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people."
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"The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs."
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"Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people."
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"That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil."
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"I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat."
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"When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite."
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"Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government."
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"To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies."
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"I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?"
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"Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government."
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"Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah."
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"Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom."
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"The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does."
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"The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of government."
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"This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen."
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"Postal service of today is far removed from that of 30 years ago when reform was last enacted."
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"I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution."
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"In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president."
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"But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives."
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"But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with."
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"So government acts as a safeguard of our property."
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"Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government."
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