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Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

Government Man Richer Poorer
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Government that breaks its own laws can also easily break you.

Laws Government You Break
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Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Government Left Mankind Own
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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Better Days Peace Get
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So, if we lie to the government it's a felony. But if they lie to us it's politics
Government Politics Lie Felony
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“It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”

Democracy Government Other Worst
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“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.”

Rule Criticize Abroad Attack
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If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

Trust Protect Lost People
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Enforcement isn’t about big government or small government. It’s about whether government works and who it works for.

Enforcement Big Work About
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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Whole Secret Fox Lion
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It is in the interest of the government and also the interest of the nation that things are done properly and that there is due process and that we are not unfair.

Government Interest Nation Process
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The only way to eliminate any government choice on what art is worthwhile, what art isn't worthwhile, is to get the government totally out of the business of funding.

Government Choice Worthwhile Art
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The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Political System Right People
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Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.

About Government Only People
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Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Democracy Form Government Variety
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Among a large class, there seemed to be a dependence upon the government for every conceivable thing. The members of this class had little ambition to create a position for themselves, but wanted the federal officials to create one for them. How many times I wished then and have often wished since, that by some power of magic, I might remove the great bulk of these people into the country districts and plant them upon the soil – upon the solid and never deceptive foundation of Mother Nature, where all nations and races that have ever succeeded have gotten their start – a start that at first may be slow and toilsome, but one that nevertheless is real.

Large Dependency Ambition Creat
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The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

Class Right People Ultimate
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It is our theory that the people own the government, not that the government should own the people.

Theory People Government Own
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I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

Business Government Park Run
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When a people lose the courage to resist encroachment on their rights, then they can’t be saved by an outside force. Our belief is that people always have the kind of government they want and that individuals must bear the risks of freedom, even to the extent of giving their lives.

People Courage Resist Right
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I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

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I think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can - must have some sort of responsibility, because they're in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines.

Because Defend Elected Except
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How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

Administer Fortunate Governments How
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What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.

Fortune Good Good Fortune Governments
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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Being Government Humorist Trick
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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Getting Government Paying Thankful
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Facts Government Jokes Just
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If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep

Any Creek Get Government
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I am at war With my government.

I War My Government
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It’s a democratic system of government, it’s government of the people.

System People Government Democratic
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Separation of power is not separation of government.
Government Power Separation Not
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Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.

Citizens Government Left Like
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Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

Actions Alone American American People
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If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Architecture Beautiful Better Chicago
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A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

America Call Democracy Else
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Chosen Course Forward Go
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Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Alien Country Democracy Forget
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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Continuing Control Enough Government
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More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

Beginning Between Brutal Differences
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As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

Condemned Erase Government History
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Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

American Censor Committed Freedom
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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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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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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

Been Flock Glad Government
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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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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Aristocracy Badly Democracy Educated
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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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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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