Harry S Truman Quotes
Democracy maintains that government is established for the benefit of the individual, and is charged with the responsibility of protecting the individual, and is charged with the responsibility of protecting the rights of the individual and his freedom in the exercise of his abilities. Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.
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Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!
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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
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In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.
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Hungary is against the export of democracy and opposes migration.
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If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.
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Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contributing to an unnecessary mass hysteria.
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When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.
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The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.
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Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
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I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.
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I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.
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There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.
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Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.
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It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.
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I sometimes joke that I can take personal responsibility for saving one million human relationships.
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A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.
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But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.
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The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
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I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
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I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast.
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The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men.
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Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
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Democracy maintains that government is established for the benefit of the individual, and is charged with the responsibility of protecting the individual, and is charged with the responsibility of protecting the rights of the individual and his freedom in the exercise of his abilities. Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.
