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" Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. "
Albert Einstein
Law
Government
Respect
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" Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. "
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" Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them. "
Bill Gates
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Problems
Government
" The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. "
Thomas Sowell
Rising
Tax
Goal
" There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people. "
Ray Bradbury
" Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Best
Us
" Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing. "
Thomas Sowell
Data
Cry
Nothing
" I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government. "
Lloyd Bentsen
Community
Government
Learning
" The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment. "
David Mamet
Greed
Peace
Evil
" 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. "
Bill Bixby
Vote
People
Government
" Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. "
Albert Einstein
Morality
Us
Importance
" Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. "
Leo Tolstoy
Violence
Who
Government
" It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. "
George Washington
System
Down
Free
" In 2006, I entered the presidential palace in the main square of La Paz as the first indigenous president of Bolivia. Our government, under the slogan 'Bolivia Changes,' is committed to ending the colonialism, racism and exclusion that many of our people lived under for many centuries. "
Evo Morales
People
Government
Ending
" Censorship is advertising paid by the government. "
Federico Fellini
Censorship
Advertising
Government
" Short of a space-alien invasion or an Oklahoma tornado, there is almost no problem that a democracy can tackle in a year. But that isn't why we have a government. We have a government to solve the problems that greedy, short-sighted businessmen like me can't. "
Glenn Kelman
Short
Problems
Government
" Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax credits, favorable regulations, bailouts, loan guarantees, targeted tax breaks and no-bid contracts. "
Charles Koch
Government
Others
Connected
" National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government. "
Richard Perle
Sovereignty
Will
Government
" We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. "
Albert Einstein
Shall
Survive
Mankind
" A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. "
James Madison
Small
Society
Democracy
" The only real valuable thing is intuition. "
Albert Einstein
Thing
Valuable
Real
" It is our job to work for the government of the day and so that means working for Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, and we need to do those preparations just to be sure that we're ready for whoever you, the British public, elect and that's core to our civil service values over the last 150 years. "
Gus O'Donnell
You
Day
Government
" I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty. "
Albert Einstein
Imagination
Creation
God
" The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. "
Albert Einstein
Truth
Activity
Beauty
" We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. "
Albert Einstein
Intelligence
Powerful
Personality
" Optimism is the ultimate definition of a leader. A leader has to look optimistically at what is ahead while not ignoring the challenges that must be overcome. Those challenges are in government, politics, world leadership, and even in community life. "
Linda McMahon
Leadership
Life
Community
" For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms. "
Gerry Adams
Years
Over
Ireland
" The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. "
Albert Einstein
New
Problem
Release
" The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system - at least not in the way that is claimed. The same is true of the roads, of course. "
Noam Chomsky
Government
True
Travel
" Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense. "
Richard Scaife
Strong
Like
Ideas
" Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started. "
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Government
Just
Opportunity