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" Negative personal attacks have no place in public life and serve to erode public confidence in our basic institutions of government. "

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" A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion. "

" Even a very brief tape-delay introduces a form of censorship into the broadcast - not direct governmental control, but it means that a network representative is in effect guessing at what a government might tolerate, which can be even worse. "

" 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. "

Henry David Thoreau

" It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. "

Alexander Hamilton

" The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. "

" Human cloning is coming. "

" I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world. "

" Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions. "

" As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world. "

" If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live. "

" The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. "

" We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act. "

" Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. "

Thomas Jefferson

" What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended. "

" When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same. "

" When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. "

Winston Churchill

" The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" Hoosiers don't believe in discrimination. "

" It sometimes seems easier to trace the great general laws of God's government in the passage of events far from us than in those close around us. We see the shape of those far-off constellations, but we cannot group or set in order that to which our own sun belongs. "

Edward Everett Hale

" I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying. "

" I think the Eritrean government is aware that any full-scale invasion of Ethiopia along the lines of 1998 could turn out to be suicidal... And we will not respond to any provocation short of all-out invasion. We are already engaged in a much more fruitful war - against poverty. "

" The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government. "

" The world will not accept dictatorship or domination. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

" Truth is the glue that holds government together. "

" The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality. "

" 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. "

" When we embraced social media, we took more control of the Newark narrative. We increased responsiveness toward residents. We drew more of our constituents in to participate in government and improve our cities. "

" The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment. "