Government Quotes
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The federal government is a machine designed to increase its control over the lives of average Americans. It is constantly probing here, pushing there, and generally increasing its control. Without a philosophically sound, constitutionally based political party opposing that process, it is going to continue to do so with impunity.
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People talk about smart sanctions and crippling sanctions. Ive never seen smart sanctions, and crippling sanctions cripple everyone, including innocent civilians, and make the government more popular.
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You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.
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The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business and invest it in tax-exempt securities or to find other lawful methods of avoiding the realization of taxable income. The result is that the sources of taxation are drying up; wealth is failing to carry its share of the tax burden; and capital is being diverted into channels which yield neither revenue to the Government nor profit to the people.
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In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we don't make government responsive to the people, we don't make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy.
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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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Americans think their danger is terrorists. They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution.... The terrorists are not anything like the threat we face from our own government in the name of fighting terrorism.... The American constitutional system is near to being overthrown.
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All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.
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Vetting and verifying information is one thing. Having our government sending out conflicting messages to the American people when conflict can be avoided is another.
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From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.
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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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Abortion is a states' rights issue. Education is a states' right issue. Medicinal marijuana is a states' rights issue. Gay marraige is a states' rights issue. Assisted suicide- like Terri Schiavo- is a states' rights issue. Come to think of it, almost every issue is a states' rights issue. Let's get the federal government out of our lives.
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You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals.
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The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.
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We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.
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About the government, I think it is for the people - and, of course, journalists, commentators and intellectuals - to comment, which they have done copiously. All I would say is, I am grateful.
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You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.
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In the discharge of this trust I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration of the Government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable.
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There is good government when those who are near are made happy, and when those who are afar are attracted.
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A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.
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Unless wealth was chastened by culture or regulated by government, it was at worst predatory, at best boring.
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Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation of what Government denominated the law of God. To prevent a similar train of evils in this country, the Constitution has wisely withheld from our Government the power of defining the divine law.
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Government is not peaceful; it is inherently coercive.
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History showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith.
