Government Quotes
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If the government controls your health care, the government controls you. Obamacare was never about health care. It was about government power, dependency, and control.
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Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.
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The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.
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A country whose population has been trained to accept the government's word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.
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Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence.
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Jealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for the good government of the Union. In a words, the confederation appears to me to be little more than a shadow without the substance . . . .
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The United States compared to a number of our competitors is the only government in the world with any kind of safeguards, any kind of checks and balances. They may in many respects need to be strengthened and people need to be reassured, and they need to have their protections embodied in law.
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Non-cooperation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government.
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Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.
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It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.
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I believe we should have a full-court press diplomatic effort. If Trump doesn't want to listen to the experts inside his own government, then go to people outside in think tanks and academia who know about this very complicated region, and particularly North Korea.
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History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.
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A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.
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Can any one feel any respect for a government that accords rights only to the privileged classes, and none to the workers?
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
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The new government will face complex challenges ... I believe it will be sworn in.
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Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
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The United States is no more a Christian nation because most of its citizens are Christians than it is a 'white' nation because most of its citizens are white. We are Americans because we practice democracy and believe in republican government, not because we practice revealed religion and believe in Bible-based government.
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Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.
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Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.
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We look like we're just crybabies, ... And the world out there is not sympathetic to government scientists who make more money than the vice president of the United States. Let's get real.
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Competence doesn't seem like a big deal until you are forced to realize that your own government has none.
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Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.
