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" If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. "
Henry David Thoreau
Law
Nature
Legal
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" The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security. "
James Madison
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" Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. "
Henry David Thoreau
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" I don't want to put words in Geithner's mouth, but I think he is generally against the revolving door of government officials taking jobs with companies that they have overseen or in roles that involve lobbying. At minimum, I'm pretty sure he felt that way about himself. "
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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" If you work for the federal government, the average salary is $7,000 higher than the private sector. Something's wrong with that, when you're making more money working for the government than you can working in the private sector. "
Jesse Ventura
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" If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized. "
Lysander Spooner
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Now
Honest
" Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs. "
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Every Day
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" The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly. "
Alexander Hamilton
Folly
Nothing
People
" The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money. "
Margaret Thatcher
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Government
Money
" In the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the government called for an Internet 'unfettered by Federal or State regulation.' The result of that fateful decision was the greatest free-market success story in history. "
Ajit Pai
Government
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History
" To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. "
Wendell Phillips
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You
Talk
" 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. "
Andrew Jackson
Body
Government
Simplicity
" Censorship is advertising paid by the government. "
Federico Fellini
Censorship
Advertising
Government
" Men are born to succeed, not to fail. "
Henry David Thoreau
Fail
Men
Born
" The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. "
Henry David Thoreau
Man
Bridge
Moon
" 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. "
Tom Steyer
Opinion
Lead
Long
" Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it. "
Cullen Hightower
Government
Talk
Does
" Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. "
Henry David Thoreau
You
Columbus
New
" My purpose is to call on my colleagues, whether they're Republicans or Democrats, to get behind the agenda of trying to reform the government and make it work for the people rather than the other way around. "
Mike Lee
Purpose
People
Government
" A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. "
Gerald R. Ford
Big
Government
Enough
" A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility. "
Wayne Dyer
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Government
Responsibility
" To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat. "
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" The happiness of society is the end of government. "
John Adams
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End
Government
" 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. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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Policy
" Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. "
Henry David Thoreau
Friends
Seem
Distance
" Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights. "
Leland Stanford
Great
Memorable
Men
" The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people. "
Mike Pence
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Government
More
" After the first blush of sin comes its indifference. "
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After
First
Sin
" One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it. "
Huey Long
Like
Government
Days
" Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House. "
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