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Government Quotes
"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: 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 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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"The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion."
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"I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers."
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"He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department."
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"Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant."
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"I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen."
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"You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility."
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"I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it."
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"In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office."
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"The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral."
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"I call it small government, grass-roots activism: The Tea Party activists are a part of it, FreedomWorks is part of it. FreedomWorks is the longest-standing, most active organization within this movement."
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"I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans."
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"We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government."
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"That the Iraqi Government is considering a political deal granting amnesty to insurgents who have attacked or killed American service members is not just shocking - the idea of amnesty for insurgents is an outrage."
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"The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise."
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"I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with."
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"He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor."
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"We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility."
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"One of the cries from the people was, don't forget us. They have a long road ahead of them. Operation Blessing has found those little fishing towns. They will not be getting what other towns are getting from the government."
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"Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?"
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"We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government."
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"Every cook has to learn how to govern the state."
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"Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it."
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"All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities."
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"The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!"
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"Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness."
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"I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation."
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"This administration in Washington that's in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need, but it's the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area."
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"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country."
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"A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it."
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"The Pledge clearly acknowledges the fact that our freedoms in this country come from God, not government."
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"On the way from Chicago, I spent the summer of 1947 in Ottawa, helping to build the first of a series of econometric models for the Canadian government."
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"One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties."
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"In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so."
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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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"I can't think of a time that the U.S. government asked us or instructed us not to report or air something."
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"The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope."
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"In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government."
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"Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats."
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"The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles."
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"The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time."
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"We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are."
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"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds."
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"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."
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"The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child."
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"Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete."
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"At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men."
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"The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time."
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"In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color."
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