Famous Quotes: Government

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
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Besides the healthcare bill being unconstitutional and a great expansion of federal government, I think if it does not respect people's individual religious views and makes groups or individuals do things that are contrary to their deeply held beliefs, there is going to be a visceral negative reaction.
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It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.
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You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was too strong, and with the other three I was too weak.
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In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.
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Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners.
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Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
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In time we hate that which we often fear.
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It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it.
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Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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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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Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
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We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
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