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" Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better. "

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" I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government. "

William H. Wharton

History

Suffering

Government

" 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. "

" Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning. "

" The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. "

" Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success. "

" 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. "

" Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay. "

" A government is for the benefit of all the people. "

" A Supreme Court justice needs to understand that he is not a politician. He needs to understand that the judiciary is a passive branch of government. His decisions should not proactively seek to set policy. "

" Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. "

" I hope to help the Indian government advance their economic reform agenda, which will benefit India's citizens and the world. "

" Government has to be cut back like asparagus... every day... or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there's too much of it, the flower becomes a weed. "

" The very first act of the Confederate Government was to send commissioners to Washington to make terms of peace, and to establish relations of amity between the two sections. "

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

Act

Peace

Two

" Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing. "

" The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The Democrats have prevailed because, at heart, we have embodied a great idea, which is that an elected government can be the instrument of the common purpose of a free people; that government can embrace great causes and do great things. "

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Great

Free

Purpose

" America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. "

" The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. "

" Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government. "

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Opinion

Bad

Bad Government

" Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. "

" Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy. "

" Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. "

" I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat. "

" The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts. "

Victor Mitchell

War

Powerful

" As elected officials, we were sent to the halls of government by our neighbors to do their work - and much work needs to be done. Remembering our shared experiences with the people we represent makes us better and more accountable civil servants. "

" Americans don't know the Constitution. More than half of those surveyed can't name any of the rights guaranteed under the First Amendment. Only a quarter can name all three branches of government. "

" There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do. "

" In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. "

Alexis de Tocqueville

Escape

Words

Tax