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" Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. "
Thurgood Marshall
Men
Government
Giving
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Mike Birbiglia
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" Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. "
Frederic Bastiat
Live
Government
Great
" I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females). "
Abraham Lincoln
Right
Taxes
Sharing
" Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. "
Ronald Reagan
Them
Does
Government
" 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
Life
Duty
Law
" While we can never truly repay the debt we owe our heroes, the least we should do for our brave veterans is to ensure that the government takes a proactive approach to delivering the services and benefits they have earned, so they can access the care they need and so richly deserve. "
Kirsten Gillibrand
Need
Veterans
Brave
" 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
Day
Power
Government
" There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. "
Andrew Jackson
Exist
Only
Necessary
" Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. "
Bill Gates
Way
Money
Government
" Who controls the issuance of money controls the government! "
Nathan Meyer Rothschild
Who
Government
Money
" We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. "
Henry A. Wallace
Tolerate
Industrial
Must
" Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty. "
Henry Knox
Name
Liberty
Government
" The United States of America was originally an experiment. But it was an experiment in recognizing God-given individual liberty and creating a government in which we no one is deemed better than another. And in which all of us are equal. Not equal in abilities, but equal in intrinsic worth and value. "
Mike Huckabee
America
Better
Value
" I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. "
Vaclav Havel
Military
Words
Government
" Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself. "
Jonah Goldberg
Government
Man
Political
" The Democrats have prevailed because, at heart, we have embodied a great idea, which is that an elected government can be the instrument of the common purpose of a free people; that government can embrace great causes and do great things. "
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Great
Free
Purpose
" For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. "
Marco Rubio
World
Government
Live
" Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country. "
Edward Abbey
Country
Me
Poor
" No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards. "
Donella Meadows
Goals
Government
Performance
" Deciding not to decide is, of course, among the most important things done by the Supreme Court. It takes a lot of doing, but it can be done. "
Thurgood Marshall
Done
Doing
Supreme Court
" 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
" That government is best which governs least. "
Henry David Thoreau
Least
Which
Best
" Our politicians are stupid. And the Mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunning. And they send the bad ones over because they don't want to pay for them. They don't want to take care of them. Why should they when the stupid leaders of the United States will do it for them? "
Donald Trump
Care
Stupid
Government
" Voters did say 'repeal health care', they did say 'reduce the size of government.' But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said 'give tax breaks to the wealthiest.' "
Chuck Schumer
Care
Health
Tea
" I know people don't like America very much, but the one thing it's very good on is local government. "
Heather Brooke
People
Good
America
" If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Government
Would
Selling
" 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
" There was no measure that required greater caution or more severe scrutiny than one to impose taxes or raise a loan, be the form what it may. I hold that government has no right to do either, except when the public service makes it imperiously necessary, and then only to the extent that it requires. "
John C. Calhoun
Public Service
Service
Government
" When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. "
Isaac Asimov
Government
Society
American
" It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. "
Will Rogers
Government
Good
Get