Famous Quotes: Government

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
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The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it.
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You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.
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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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Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.
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I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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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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And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.
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I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
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I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now.
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I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.
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An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?
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The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
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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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Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.
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But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.
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We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.
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There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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