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" A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion. "

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Louis D. Brandeis

" The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people. "

" Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it. "

Cullen Hightower

" 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. "

" Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. "

" This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave. "

" I think in the end the big issue is that the private sector still needs more help. And the answer is not more big government. I know in my state our reforms allowed us to protect firefighters, police officers, and teachers. "

" It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. "

John W. Gardner

" The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them. "

Cullen Hightower

" People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income. "

" Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax credits, favorable regulations, bailouts, loan guarantees, targeted tax breaks and no-bid contracts. "

" If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth. "

" Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students. "

Ferdinand Marcos

" The happiness of society is the end of government. "

" It is not in our interest to sign economic policy agreements with the IMF, as that unnecessarily limits the room to manoeuvre of... the Hungarian government, Hungarian parliament and lawmakers. "

" 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. "

" When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility. "

" One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it. "

" I try to put myself in others' shoes: How does any country give up any sovereignty and expect to survive as a government? I don't think that any Philippine president, or any leader for that matter, can afford to give up any portion of territorial sovereignty. That would be political suicide. "

Benigno Aquino III

" Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it. "

" All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. "

" A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient. "

" It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts fair treatment before the law. "

" Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule. "

" I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. "

" The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. "

" When we embraced social media, we took more control of the Newark narrative. We increased responsiveness toward residents. We drew more of our constituents in to participate in government and improve our cities. "

" When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. "

" The Erdogan government's first major step outside of the U.S. alliance was during the Bush Administration, when it wouldn't let Washington use Turkey as a launching ground for U.S. troops entering Iraq in 2003. "

" A lot of people don't understand what feminism is. They think it is about advance and success for women, but it's not that at all. It is about power for the female left. And they have this, I think, ridiculous idea that American women are oppressed by the patriarchy and we need laws and government to solve our problems for us. "

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