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"782 Government Quotes

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

Gun Hand Make Only
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We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.

Believe Black Inflicted Never
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Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

Architecture Believe Convinced Debate
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We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.

Democracy But Perfect Have
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I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

Accuse American Being Biggest
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The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.

Back Builds Capitalism Destroys
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I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.

Country Focus Forget Governing
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The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

Democracy Dictatorship Exists Here
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What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.

Elite Country Oil Government
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The problem is not the oil, but what they do with the oil. The United States is the biggest spender of oil and of all the planet resources.

Biggest Oil Planet Problem
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It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

Always Beyond Chain Civilization
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All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

Blood Democracy Dies Drained
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Law Men Poor Rich
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America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.

America Just Light Missile
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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.

Diminish Far Liberties Our
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Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.

Been Countries Destruction Development
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I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.

Appointments Bipartisan Committee Making
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Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.

Benefits Democrats Failed Fight
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

Choosing Faithfully Men Notice
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One of the most enjoyable things I do at Government House and when I travel around Australia is to talk with children. I tell them about our parliamentary democracy - and I often do that as I'm walking into an Executive Council meeting next door!

Door Enjoyable Executive Government
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I consider that, in a democracy, everyone has the right to decide. If people don't have the right to express what they feel, we would be going back to a bygone era.

Back Consider Decide Democracy
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Law and justice are not always the same.

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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

Any Authority Citizen Governing
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Aristocracy Badly Democracy Educated
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Always Badly Being Governed
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Compared Courageous Government Man
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Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.

Associated Attitude Democracy Essentially
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However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.

Bad Constitution Good However
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We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

Cannot Destiny Down Find
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.

Democratic History Looked Many
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.

Beliefs Concept Conscience Deeply
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A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

Each Future Government Nation
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What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

Balance Belief Between Everything
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We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.

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Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people.

Afghan Afghanistan Al Base
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I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking care of my day to day needs, I want to do that myself. I want my community to do that.

Care Community Destroyed Government
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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

Down Ease Expect Forbid
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Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or military matters. The co-operation is a two-way street. We share intelligence that has helped protect European countries from attack, helping save European lives.

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When you are going up the corporate ladder or the government ladder, you have to take some risk.

Corporate Going Government Ladder
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We will have to stand up for and promote the power and promise of free markets and free peoples, and affirm that American preeminence safeguards rather than impedes global progress.

Affirm American Free Free Markets
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Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.

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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

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The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.

Contain Ensure Federal Financial
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These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

Believe Care Cases Environment
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We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.

Break Dependency Domestic Energy
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Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.

Bureaucratic Communities Efforts Finding
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Both Corrupts Flattery Giver
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Away Danger Expedience Liberty
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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

Ages Been Contest Executive
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