Government Quotes
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It's our government; just leave us alone and... let the free market create the jobs.
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It is substantially a proposition,” concluded the two Northern Democrats and three Republicans, who signed the Minority Report on the bill, “to build this road and the branches on Government credit without making them the property of the Government when built. If there be any profit, the corporations may take it; if there be loss, the Government must bear it.
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In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.
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Every head of state and government in the world is allowed to have his opinion and to voice it.
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In England, you have what I would call government-imposed euthanasia.
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Christ's work is a kind of deterrent to us, and a way of upholding the justice of God's divine government of the world.
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I'm saying the federal government is taking away the freedom of Americans to make choices.
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State authority can never be an end in itself; for, if that were so, any kind of tyranny would be inviolable and sacred. If a government uses the instruments of power in its hands for the purpose of leading a people to ruin, then rebellion is not only the right but also the duty of every individual citizen.
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Thomas Jefferson despised newspapers, with considerable justification. They printed libels and slanders about him that persist to the present day. Yet he famously said that if he had to choose between government without newspapers and newspapers without government, he would cheerfully choose to live in a land with newspapers (even not very good ones) and no government.
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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.
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Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the government.
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There are times when I wouldn't rule violence out. I personally don't like violence at all. But it wasn't until we had the Trafalgar Square riots that the Poll Tax went out in Britain. When people take to the streets and fight the police, it's the one thing the government can't control. You can march round in circles for the rest of your life and they can ignore it, but once you start damaging property and fighting with the police, they can't. Even though they tar you with a brush and say you're a set of bastards, they have to actually tone down what they are doing.
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Healing of the world's woes will not come through this or that social or political theory; not through violent changes in government, but in the still small voice that speaks to the conscience and the heart.
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I am no proponent of a theocracy. I am a secularist. I want an independent Iraqi government, not a lackey of Tehran.
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We need to stand together. Since I was elected leader of our party, we have repeatedly defeated the government over its attacks on living standards.
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Man should regard lower animals as being in the same dependent condition as minors under his government ... For a man to torture an animal whose life God has put into his hands, is a disgrace to his species.
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The art of government is not to let me grow stale.
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We bear the responsibility to form a stable government with a capability to act.
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The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.
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State capitalism is about more than emergency government spending, implementation of more intelligent regulation, or a stronger social safety net. It's about state dominance of economic activity for political gain.
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National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
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What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]
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Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.
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Have the government get out of the way.
