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" On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. "
Will Rogers
World
Democracy
Government
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" People like getting what they think is free stuff from government. "
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" But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. "
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" The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. "
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" I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. "
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" What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it. "
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" Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. "
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" I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving. "
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" The Ethiopian government's use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended for the Ethiopian forces. "
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" The Keynesian prescription for unemployment rests on the persistence of a 'money illusion' among workers, i.e., on the belief that while, through unions and government, they will keep money wage rates from falling, they will also accept a fall in real wage rates via higher prices. "
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" There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people. "
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" The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God. "
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" The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got. "
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" The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. "
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" Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them. "
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" The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection. "
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" If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? "
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" One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it. "
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" Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing. "
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" Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in. "
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" I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy administration at that time - into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen. "
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" For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms. "
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" I can't sit here and be a hypocrite and say I'm for limited government, but I think the government should decide what women do with their bodies. "
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" I think governments can't do much. "
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" The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. "
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" Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell. "
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" 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. "
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" The government of the United States doesn't want peace. It wants to exploit its system of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through war. It wants peace, but what's happening in Iraq? What happened in Lebanon? Palestine? What's happening? What's happened over the last hundred years in Latin America and in the world? "
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" The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. "
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