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" All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. "
William Henry Harrison
Government
Poor
Purpose
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" Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint. "
Alexander Hamilton
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Justice
Why
" The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. "
James Madison
Power
Graduation
Hands
" In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. "
Voltaire
Class
Art
Possible
" I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. "
Will Rogers
Watch
Facts
Government
" Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have. "
P. J. O'Rourke
More
People
Seat
" I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less. "
Stephen Breyer
People
Good
Government
" It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business. "
Herbert Hoover
Important
Government
Business
" Democracy must learn to defend itself. "
Mikhail Gorbachev
Learn
Defend
Government
" While we can never truly repay the debt we owe our heroes, the least we should do for our brave veterans is to ensure that the government takes a proactive approach to delivering the services and benefits they have earned, so they can access the care they need and so richly deserve. "
Kirsten Gillibrand
Need
Veterans
Brave
" It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot. "
Susan B. Anthony
Women
Government
Liberty
" For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms. "
Gerry Adams
Years
Over
Ireland
" When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. "
Isaac Asimov
Government
Society
American
" I think the federal government should be doing only what the Constitution says it should be. We don't have authority under the federal Constitution to have a big federal criminal justice system. "
Paul Broun
Constitution
Justice
Think
" Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending. "
Bob Woodward
Government
Sad
Ending
" The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting. "
William J. Brennan, Jr.
Government
Bill Of Rights
Our
" Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there. "
P. J. O'Rourke
You
Government
Good
" American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train's on track. They just keep ploughing ahead. "
Tom Wolfe
People
Government
American
" The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion. "
John Paul Stevens
Religion
Neutrality
Pursue
" Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. "
Steve Allen
Improve
Politicians
Government
" Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. "
Gerald R. Ford
Constitution
Government
Men
" There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. "
Benjamin Franklin
People
Fall
Good
" The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Over
Again
Government
" What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people. January 20th 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer. Everyone is listening to you now. "
Donald Trump
Day
Men
People
" Our elected officials would do well to remember that the most prosperous countries are those that allow consumers - not governments - to direct the use of resources. Allowing the government to pick winners and losers hurts almost everyone, especially our poorest citizens. "
Charles Koch
Government
Winners
Everyone
" As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world. "
Noam Chomsky
Back
Decision
Government
" Government and other scientists have identified hundreds of chemicals that are linked to diseases in small concentrations and that are unregulated in drinking water or policed at limits that still pose serious risks. "
Charles Duhigg
Government
Limits
Small
" 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. "
Henry David Thoreau
Law
Nature
Legal
" If we're the country that makes Amazon and Facebook and Twitter, why can't the federal government have websites and digital services that are awesome? "
Megan Smith
Digital
Awesome
Country
" We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government. "
Zoe Lofgren
System
Election
Government
" Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. "
John Adams
Government
People
Moral