Government Quotes
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Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.
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Loyalty must arise spontaneously from the hearts of people who love their country and respect their government.
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If you are focusing your anger at government, you are focusing your anger at all of us. Government is just a personification of this country.
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When the Treaty of Ghent ended the War of 1812, the British, in time-honoured fashion, abandoned their allies. Who were subsequently wiped out by the Americans along with any other tribes that happened to be in the same general vicinity – even those that had actually been allied with the US government during the war. It’s exactly this sort of thing, of course, which gives colonialism a bad name.
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Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government.
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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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Love of country is nowhere the same as love of government.
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Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.
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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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Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.
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The salvation of the young mind and the freeing of it from the noxious reactionary beliefs of their parents is one of the highest aims of the proletarian government.
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Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.
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When you do deals with France involved, you want to make sure that the government endorses your deal, understands the strategic rationale.
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State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.
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As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.
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Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in high places who understand the science but don't like where the policy leads them: too much government control.
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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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So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.
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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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Every head of state and government in the world is allowed to have his opinion and to voice it.
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We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around.
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Government employees move up the ladder through educational credentials rather than merit. People are given jobs and promotions based on seniority, race and gender rather than ability or talent. Such a system often overlooks the deserving and rewards the incompetent. There is no payoff for achievement.
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There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.
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The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.
