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"782 Government Quotes

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Cannot Country Liberty Nor
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An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

Destroy Involves Necessarily Power
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We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

Agents People Power Same
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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Despotism Called May Government
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We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

Been Liberty People Regard
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The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

Answerable By The People For The People Government
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You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

Bureaucrats Everything Never Nothing
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I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.

Better Better Job Could Good
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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Between Democracy Dictatorship Difference
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History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Bad Bad Government General Government
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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
Ever Free Government No-One
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Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

Decide Government Hesitate Latter
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Alone Error Government Itself
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Blood From Time To Time Liberty Must
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Gain Government Ground Liberty
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President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

Around Backs Demands Elected
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We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.

About Conversation Democracy Going
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Many are poor because of their sole reliance on government for everything

Reliance Poor Government Sole
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Best Even Evil Government
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No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Credit Doing Get Great
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Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

Away Because Easier Fading
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Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Almost Always Argument Cut
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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Authority Much Nothing Silence
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Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Association Government Men Rest
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One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

Anything Bankrupt Both Government
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People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.

Any Economy Get Pay
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The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

Always Beaver Eager Expected
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We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

Dictator Form Gave Got
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You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

Break Country Government Guess
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Aim Barely Best Did
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An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
Feared Government More Oppressive
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He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Compared Exercises Virtue Government
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You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we're talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system.

Brutality Community Down Educational
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

Authority Because Eat Hungry
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Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Cook Fish Govern Great
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The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.

Accepted Action Against Alternative
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A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

Dwell Feelings Find Governing
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Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical.

Conspiracy Experience Federal Man
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I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

Affairs Anything Because Believe
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You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

Benefits Cause Convey Examine
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It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.

Fellow Important Likes Me
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The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

Being Between Call Church
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The American people hit the streets and did something that the government wouldn't do: the Civil Rights Act. It didn't go down well with the corporate world.

American Civil Corporate Down
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

American Ample Constitution Enduring
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

Democracy Everybody Lord Me
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We must address poverty and hunger in our fight against insecurity.

Poverty Hunger Fight Insecurity
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The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

Abuse Abuse Of Power Bloated Control
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Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

Research Big Component Crucial
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Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.

Anyone Citizen Foreigner Harm
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The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
Bad Endure Ever Evils
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