Government Quotes
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Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.
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Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.
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Governments interfere in the affairs of each other, when they conceive their own peace is endangered.
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Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government.
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I sincerely believe that I have served a criminal. I led my soldiers in good conscience... but for a criminal government.
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The government should spend more time on promoting tourism in Sydney.
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The less [government] the better.
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I'm so proud to lead an agency driven by so many dedicated people. Working on a holiday, and through a government shutdown, to fulfill their commitment to America.
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The information that follows is taken primarily...from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees.
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The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
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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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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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The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined.
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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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When an upstart dictator in the United States succeeds in making this a one-party form of government, I shall have the courage to stand up and advocate the use of bullets.
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We are told that our choice is between free markets and state control, when most adults live their working lives under a third thing entirely: private government.
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I believe in small government and people taking care of themselves.
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The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this government can never be, as it never has been, a true republic.
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You know, the primary process itself is very confusing. But in the end, I guess I believe what Winston Churchill said, which is that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others. And that phrase of his, which I always have previously thought to be kind of acute, more recently I've thought of it in this way, to say well, you know what, he's also saying it's the worst form of government - except for all of the others.
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The very first act of the Confederate Government was to send commissioners to Washington to make terms of peace, and to establish relations of amity between the two sections.
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In our system of government, the president is not supposed to be above the law. He is not a king; his word is not the law.
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You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.
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The remarkable fact is not how much government does to control economic activity, but how much it does not do.
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A true patriot does not confuse government with country. A patriot's loyalty is to his country, and loyalty to country requires holding government accountable.
