Government Quotes
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Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence.
James Cook -
Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war... Nothing can be more destructive of our fundamental democratic traditions than the vicious effort to silence dissenters.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
The government was comprehensive in its response ... (but) I would characterize the proposals as disappointing.
Jack Layton -
Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.
Aristotle -
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?
George Washington -
The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.
Tom G. Palmer -
If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.
Loni Anderson
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Only government can cause inflation, preserve monopoly, and punish enterprise.
William Francis Buckley -
If everyone has to be a watchdog in order to make government work, then the foxes will also volunteer to serve.
William Greider -
Collectively the media; the meat, oil, and dairy industries; most prominent chefs and cookbook authors; and our own government are not presenting accurate advice about the healthiest way to eat.
Caldwell Esselstyn -
A people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are unequal to the exertions necessary for preserving it. They are more or less unfit for liberty; and although it may be for their good to have had it even for a short time, they are unlikely long to enjoy it.
John Stuart Mill -
The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.
Abraham Lincoln -
What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.
Barack Obama
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You don't want lopsided government. You don't want one side running roughshod over the other.
William Lewis Safir -
To hold that Congress has general police power would be to hold that it may accomplish objects not intrusted to the general government, and to defeat the operation of the 10th Amendment, declaring that 'the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Melville Fuller -
When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.
Aristotle -
The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.
Abraham Lincoln -
Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360,000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic levels. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.
Tom Harkin -
The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.
William Weld
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A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.
Henry Ward Beecher -
...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself.
Abraham Lincoln -
Look how many of our young are ill prepared to enter adult life today. This was designed by progressives to create government dependency.
Ziad K. Abdelnour