Famous Quotes: Government

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
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Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.
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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
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There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums.
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Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
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To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
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Aggression is simply another name for government.
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Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
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The fact is, almost every year since the founding of these United States, our government has lived beyond its means.
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It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.
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We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.
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Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
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The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.
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The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
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Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.
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The happiness of society is the end of government.
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