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" Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed with vital powers. A people cannot be free who do not participate in the control of the government which operates upon them. "

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" As an Indian, and now as a politician and a government minister, I've become rather concerned about the hype we're hearing about our own country, all this talk about India becoming a world leader, even the next superpower. "

Shashi Tharoor

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" I am almost inclined to say that India will get Dominion Responsible Government the day the Hindus and Muslims are united. "

" Truth is the glue that holds government together. "

" 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. "

" The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people. "

" I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government. "

" In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. "

" If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it's expensive, and it has unquantified risks. And under those conditions, you cannot establish a capital-market evaluation of that enterprise. You can't get investors. "

" Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? "

Will Rogers

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Rome

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

" The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. "

" I don't believe any person looking for work is fearful of political judgment. Government is a large institution, and if they believe that people are going to get rid of good employees for political reasons, that's absurd. "

" The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the State. "

" 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. "

" I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us. "

Teri Garr

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Government

" The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. "

" Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent. "

" No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government. "

" My government, a government of national unity, will make all necessary structural reforms. "

" The nations of Europe constitute a federative league, a commonwealth of nations which, though it has no central head, is so intimate and elaborate as to subject the action, and sometimes even the internal affairs, of each to surveillance and intervention on the part of all the others. "

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

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Europe

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" Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. "

" I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government. "

" The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. "

" Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. "

" Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate. "

" If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine. "

" New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush. "

" I don't think people maybe think that the government does tell them the truth. I think they expect politicians who are going to tell them one thing and then when they get in office do something else. "

" Every country has the government it deserves. "

" The center of all my enjoyments is the home wherein are my wife and children, and I have no wish to wander out from that home in pursuit of any pleasures that the world presents. "

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

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