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" I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. "
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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" As a Cherokee, I can attest to the fact that Native Americans have been on the losing side of history. Our rights have been infringed upon, our treaties have been broken, our culture has been stolen, and our tribes have been decimated at the hands of our own United States government. "
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" The right solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States, and which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the bills of rights of the States subsequently admitted into the Union of 1789, undeniably recognizes in the people the power to resume the authority delegated for the purposes of Government. "
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" I do not want history to record me as someone who has bequeathed to his nation the institution of despotism. "
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" The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders. "
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" Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country. "
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" No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal. "
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" Voters did say 'repeal health care', they did say 'reduce the size of government.' But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said 'give tax breaks to the wealthiest.' "
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" 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
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" But only 'rich' people by definition have the 'extra' money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that 'extra' money away - and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times? "
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" The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. "
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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. "
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" The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force. "
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" Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule. "
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" We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government. "
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" Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. "
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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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" I always give much attention to military character and to psychological and morale conditions. "
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" 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. "
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" The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. "
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" A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves. "
Grover Cleveland
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" No country is free unless it is democratic. "
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" 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. "
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" I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated. "
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" The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. "
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" The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. "
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" Ours is a fully democratic government, which in our language we call a people's government. "
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