Government Quotes
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We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others.
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I feel like I am not an American in the eyes of my government because of their religious beliefs. I think that is un-American.
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Sometimes there's not a direct transfer of skills from business to government, but sometimes what happened in business would be really bad for government.
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The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today.
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Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.
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The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.
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The US government is like an ocean liner, not like a speed boat. It's harder to turn around than people might think.
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Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.
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The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.
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There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.
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The highest priority for any government concerned with its own future and the peace of the world community ought to be the facilities it provides for the care and nurturance of young children.
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If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
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Assaults by fanatics on our safety... does not justify assaults by the government on our freedom!
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Freedom to speak and write about public questions is as important to the life of our government as is the heart to the human body. In fact, this privilege is the heart of our government. If that heart be weakened, the result is debilitation; if it be stilled, the result is death.
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So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.
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Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.
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The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.
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Businesses and governments need to work together and make a joint commitment if we want to address climate change effectively and quickly.
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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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One person's view is not to be sniffed at. Everybody is entitled to have their view and people are entitled to have a different view from the view the [American] Government has arrived at and they're entitled to express their view.
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The ideal Government minister may well be someone who has no itch to run other people's lives.
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Questions of such gravity go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end?
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Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the undesirable side effect of raising the natural rate of unemployment.
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The moral law of God is the only law of individuals and of nations, and nothing can be rightful government but such as is established and administered with a view to its support.
