Government Quotes
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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.
Richard Mentor Johnson
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We need to look beyond the obvious. Yes, there are minstrel images in hip-hop. Yes, there are demeaning, anti-racist, misogynistic and homophobic representations. We could make the same case about the church and our government. But hip-hop, like society, isn't one dimensional.
Bakari Kitwana
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No power in the country can dissolve the government.
Ashraf Ghani
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What kind of government is this? This is a human being. This is not right, and I'm telling everybody you better call your congressman, because they're going to run your life.
Michael Schiavo
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Much more should have been achieved by a Labour Government in office and Labour pressure in opposition. Against the dogged resistance to change, we should have pitted a stronger will to change. I conclude that a move to the Left is needed.
Anthony Crosland
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When it comes to federal programs, even if states are discriminating, the federal government should not.
Evan Wolfson
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Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it.
Bill Clinton
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She really was one of those cross-generational leaders. She was there to discuss the issue of keeping government out of our personal decisions.
Nancy Keenan
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Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The Declaration of Independence was not a protest against government, but against the excess of government. It prescribed the proper role of government, to secure the rights of individuals and to effect their safety and happiness. In modern society, no individual can do this alone. So government is not a necessary evil but a necessary good.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable.
George Washington
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In America, we have anti-nepotism laws in the federal government and in lots of state governments, because the practice of hiring relatives undermines public confidence that the government official is actually finding best person for the job.
Kathleen Clark
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The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government.
Walter E. Williams
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Whatever we get from the government or other people - even one rupee we get, we give it to the poor. Completely free service.
Mother Teresa
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The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.
George Washington
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The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity.
Edmund Yates
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The only reason the government didn’t stop the financiers was because it approved of what they were doing: helping to lower the cost of homeownership.
Yaron Brook
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Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through the device of currency depreciation for the sake of remaining in office, the wiser ones will prefer to keep as much of their wealth in the most stable and marketable forms possible - forms which only the precious metals provide.
Elgin Groseclose
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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.
Hugo Black
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The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.
George Washington
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Whenever the results of the investigation come to the surface, then the time will be suitable to talk about forming the new government.
Ayad Allawi
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The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.
Simon Bolivar
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The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.
Michael Oxley
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We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.
Abraham Lincoln