George Washington Quotes
A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.
Quotes to Explore
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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
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I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
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Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
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The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.
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We should be open to a discussion on keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. I don't know how that manifests itself, but I'm looking to get elected president of the United States. I just want to let people know I have an open mind about how we might - how government might - interject itself in a lot of the problems we have.
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The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.
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The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.
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I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and the people of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, the promoter of the Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party he founded.
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I see the demographics increasing, and by that I mean the notion of social acceptance is growing, not decreasing; I think the notion of fiscal responsibility is growing, not decreasing. And Republicans seem to be moving further away from those two categories than closer.
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All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
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Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.
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Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
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There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.
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The United States influences government and life everywhere else.
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America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
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Just as judges have enormous stake in the appointment of judicial officers in the higher judiciary, the government has an equal stake. Since both of us have stakes in the appointment of members of the higher judiciary, the consultation of both of them is absolutely necessary. The government must have a say.
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To pump up consumer or government demand would force interest rates up and asset prices down, possibly by enough to destroy more jobs than are created.
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People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spending, cut taxes, that will focus on private-sector job creation.
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There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.
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If the crowd disperses, goes home, does not reassemble, we say the revolution is over.
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I'm a-gonna tell you how it's gonna be,You're gonna give your love to me.I wanna love you night and day,You know my love a-not fade away.A-well, you know my love a-not fade away.
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A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.
