Government Quotes
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Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
George Washington
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You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.
Nicholas Donabet Kristof
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We have long suspected that the faceless organisations that run our world - be it the church, multinational conglomerates or the government - keep things from us.
Simon Toyne
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The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!
Bill Clinton
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Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.
Sarah Palin
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I shall not remind you, Citizen-Directors, of all I have done for the triumph of liberty, the prosperity of St. Domingo, the glory of the French Republic; nor will I protest to you my attachment to our mother country, to my duties; my respect to the constitution, to the laws of the Republic, and my submission to the government.
Toussaint Louverture
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Just take Kosovo: back then, UN bodies decided that Kosovo should become independent of Serbia and that the interests of Serbia's central government had to be subordinated. You can read that in all the records, also in the German ones.
Vladimir Putin
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The business of education has layed the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form of our government . . . . He must be taught to love his fellow creatures in every part of the world, but he must cherish with a more intense and peculiar affection the citizens of Pennsylvania and of the United States.
Benjamin Rush
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I find it hilarious that if we lie to the government, it's a crime. But if they lie to us its politics.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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In this day and age, where the Democrat and Republican parties are no longer the voice of Main Street, but the puppets of Wall Street, it is natural that a Third Party should appear to champion the traditionally conservative proposition that the Constitution is the blueprint for the operation of the government of the United States.
Gatewood Galbraith
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They've also, the government's decided now, what sexual content is.
Richard Serra
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There are certain basic principles regarding the proper role of government. If principles are correct, then they can be applied to any specific proposal with confidence... The true statesman values principle above popularity, and works to create popularity for those political principles which are wise and just.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet.
George W. Norris
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The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Milton Friedman
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When it shall be known that, at the time which I was accused of wishing to sunder this island from France - my benefactress - I repeated the oath of fidelity to her, I take pleasure in believing that the government I own, and my fellow-citizens, will render me the justice I merit, and that the enemies of my brethren will be reduced to silence.
Toussaint Louverture
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The highest honor in the church is not government but service.
John Calvin
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General revenue - what taxpayers are willing to give government, what they think is fair to give government - is not going to grow at the same amount that the federal government basically forces us to spend on Medicaid.
Rick Scott
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I'm not a big government guy. I believe in private industries taking care of people. I think they do a better job.
Scott Vincent James Baio
