Government Quotes
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A well balanced, inclusive approach, is essential for the proper government of any country.
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We're under pressure because we haven't reached the point where we can form a stable government yet.
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As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.
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Change is not in the hands of government, not in the hands of a leader or guru, and not in the hands of the powerful or wealthy. It is in our hands: the hands of each and every one of us.
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The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.
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The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
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Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.
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I'd love to thwart the Census form, but I want a constitutional basis for doing it - and here's the tricky thing. I think even constitutional purists would tell you that just because something isn't in the Constitution does not mean the government cannot do it.
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A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.
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The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.
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One of the best programs that the federal government sponsors is the Small Business Innovation Research program, in which more than 2.5 percent of federal research and development funding at the largest agencies goes directly to small businesses.
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The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.
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On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.
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It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.
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If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.
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Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as that. For where-ever the Power that is put in any hands for the Government of the People, and the Preservation of their Properties, is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to the Arbitrary and Irregular Commands of those that have it: There it presently becomes Tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many.
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In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. Every man will speak as he thinks, or, more properly, without thinking, and consequently will judge of effects without attending to their causes.
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We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.
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I've been working hard on a new song, it's titled "Frozen Piggy Pudding". It's about how the government is full of pigs who eat pudding all day. Oh look a frisbee, allo' govna.
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I still believe in the power of government to make lives better, and I believe that if someone is willing to take a stand, other people will follow.
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If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.
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I have taken my flight in the region of eagles; when I alight, it must be on a rock, and that rock must be a constitutional government, of which I shall be the head so long as I shall be among men.
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Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.
