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" I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving. "
Robert E. Lee
Government
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" 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. "
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" I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it. "
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" You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic. "
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" I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to complain about the government that we are now living under. By the same token, if you don't really vote in television, you're never going to have your way. Write a letter to the president of the network. "
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" I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day, sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go . "
Evita Peron
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" A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others. "
Robert E. Lee
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" By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. "
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" The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. "
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" Now judicial review, beloved by conservatives, can, of course, fulfill the excellent function of declaring government interventions and tyrannies unconstitutional. But it can also validate and legitimize the government in the eyes of the people by declaring these actions valid and constitutional. "
Murray Rothbard
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" We cannot watch another family lose everything - risking their lives and the lives of the first responders sent to rescue them - because the flood insurance program's seal of government approval fooled them into thinking they were safe. That's more than wrong: it's immoral. "
Jeb Hensarling
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" In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the government bureaucratic stovepipes that inhibit our abilities to effectively defend America while ensuring citizens' privacy and civil liberties are also protected. "
Michael McCaul
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" But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. "
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" I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying. "
George Michael
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" Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started. "
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" Democracy must learn to defend itself. "
Mikhail Gorbachev
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" But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with. "
Jonathan Mayhew
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" Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP. "
Polly Toynbee
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" If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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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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" History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. "
Vladimir Putin
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" This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. "
Will Rogers
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" We eliminated the monarchy. We put limits on how long one person could lead our country and on the powers they held while in office. We took differences of opinion seriously - in fact, we built them into the fabric of our government. "
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" 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
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" The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. "
Anthony Kennedy
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" Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell. "
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" Democracy passes into despotism. "
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" When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn't have the skills or the strength to become the kind of public person who could go out and lobby government agencies. "
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" The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise. "
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" I can't sit here and be a hypocrite and say I'm for limited government, but I think the government should decide what women do with their bodies. "
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" Directing a movie is a little bit like being back in student government and putting on the homecoming dance. You're like, 'You put up the streamers, and you hire the DJ, and you get the punch bowl.' Some people are just like, 'This dance sucks.' And you're like, 'No no, this dance is awesome!' You have to be really positive. "
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