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" One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it. "
Ronald Reagan
Sure
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Crime
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" The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded. "
Franklin Pierce
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" Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits. "
Dale Dauten
Government
Benefits
Bureaucracy
" Who controls the issuance of money controls the government! "
Nathan Meyer Rothschild
Who
Government
Money
" Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. "
Aristotle
Seek
Government
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" All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. "
Ronald Reagan
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Plant
Desk
" By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority. "
John Roberts
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" I think there is a real misunderstanding about what the Tea Party movement is. The Tea Party movement is a sentiment in America that government is broken - both parties are to blame - and if we don't do something soon, this exceptional country will be lost, and it will become just like everybody else. "
Marco Rubio
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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. "
James Meredith
Myself
Government
Time
" While I am a fervent believer in free markets and limited government, there are rare instances in which government involvement is necessary. "
Steve Largent
Involvement
Government
Free
" 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. "
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Duty
Law
" Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government. "
Alexander Hamilton
Government
Even
You
" We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of Great Britain made liberty the foundation of everything. That country is become a great, mighty, and splendid nation; not because their government is strong and energetic, but, sir, because liberty is its direct end and foundation. "
Patrick Henry
End
Great
Government
" I'm concerned about truth and credibility in government. "
George W. Romney
About
Truth
Government
" 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
Business
Problems
Government
" He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. "
Confucius
Star
Government
Virtue
" 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. "
Maria Cantwell
Working Together
Leadership
Change
" Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. "
Adrian Cronauer
Consent
Principle
Nation
" We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government. "
Paul Ryan
Believe
Liberty
Happiness
" 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
" Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense. "
Richard Scaife
Strong
Like
Ideas
" Government has to be cut back like asparagus... every day... or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there's too much of it, the flower becomes a weed. "
Paul Harvey
Day
Seed
Government
" 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. "
John Podhoretz
Love
Government
Most
" 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
God
Great
Government
" People do not make wars; governments do. "
Ronald Reagan
People
Wars
Make
" Good government is one of the most important factors in economic growth and social well-being. "
Joe Lonsdale
Good
Important
Growth
" 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
" Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. "
Ronald Reagan
Freedom
Children
Generation
" We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety of its people and to protect and ensure our National security. And clearly port security has been left in limbo. "
Vito Fossella
Safety
People
Responsibility
" The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. "
James Madison
Obstacle
Men
Government
" When conducted with proper preparation, and in a focused and professional manner, oversight of executive branch actions can reveal serious shortcomings by government officials and help prevent recurrence; the 'Waco hearings,' conducted over a two-week period in 1995, stand as an example of such an undertaking. "
Bob Barr
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