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" All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. "
Edmund Burke
Human
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" A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none. "
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" Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. "
Thomas Jefferson
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" People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. "
Edmund Burke
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" The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity. "
Barbara Boxer
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" The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes. "
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" Truth is the glue that holds government together. "
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" Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions. "
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" I think there is a real misunderstanding about what the Tea Party movement is. The Tea Party movement is a sentiment in America that government is broken - both parties are to blame - and if we don't do something soon, this exceptional country will be lost, and it will become just like everybody else. "
Marco Rubio
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" We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government. "
William Howard Taft
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" Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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" The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse. "
Jack Lynch
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" I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free. "
Abraham Lincoln
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" Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government. "
Adam McKay
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" There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people. "
Nelson Mandela
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" A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. "
Edmund Burke
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" Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence. "
Mike Barnicle
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" The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. "
Abraham Lincoln
Save
People
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" When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same. "
Byron Dorgan
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" Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them. "
John Erskine
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" The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. "
Edmund Burke
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May
Liberty
" They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine. "
Hutton Gibson
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" Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. "
H. L. Mencken
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" It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance. "
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" Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. "
John Adams
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" A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others. "
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" Democracy is an abuse of statistics. "
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" The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality. "
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" A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens. "
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" The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate in, including media, non-governmental organisations and the public. "
Geoff Mulgan
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" We are an important check on the powers of the executive. Our consent is necessary for the president to appoint jurists and powerful government officials and, in many respects, to conduct foreign policy. Whether we are of the same party, we are not the president's subordinates. We are his equal! "
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