Famous Quotes: Government

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
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Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
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The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it.
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History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?
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Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.
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A government is for the benefit of all the people.
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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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Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
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If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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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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I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.
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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
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We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.
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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.
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Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?
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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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It is absolutely clear that government plays a key role, as a catalyst, in promoting long-run growth.
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