Famous Quotes: Government

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
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Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios.
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Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
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The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
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Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?
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We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
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Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.
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Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.
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That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.
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The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.
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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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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
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All government, of course, is against liberty.
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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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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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Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.
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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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It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
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