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" Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government. "
B. R. Ambedkar
Political
Society
Government
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" Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. "
B. R. Ambedkar
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" 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
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" The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. "
James Madison
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Property
" War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits. "
James Madison
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People
War
" Under the rule of law, if the government wants to prevent firms from outsourcing and offshoring, it enacts legislation and adopts regulations to create the appropriate incentives and discourage undesirable behaviour. It does not bully or threaten particular firms or portray traumatised refugees as a security threat. "
Joseph Stiglitz
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" Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. "
Lily Tomlin
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" The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of the constitution, form the supreme law of the land. "
John Marshall
Action
Law
Government
" Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them. "
Marco Rubio
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Our
Rights
" It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot. "
Susan B. Anthony
Women
Government
Liberty
" It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. "
Alexander Hamilton
Desire
Tyranny
Government
" Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. "
Edward Gibbon
Monarchy
Present
World
" The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents. "
Noam Chomsky
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Government
Need
" In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Power
Government
" The American government will be whatever we all make of it. "
Megan Smith
American
Whatever
Will
" If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted. "
Abraham Lincoln
People
Government
Character
" The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. "
Thomas Jefferson
Resistance
Spirit
Wish
" I was a history and government major at Ohio State University, and I've spent a lot of time just fiddling around with who the next president's going to be, over the years, or who would I like to see in that job, or whatever. And I've come to believe, without any reservation, in this era, the best-prepared person for this job by far is Donald Trump. "
Bobby Knight
Job
Time
History
" I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm. "
Tony Abbott
Good
You
Value
" The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise. "
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Good
Goals
Purpose
" The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. "
Tom Clancy
People
Government
Power
" The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands. "
Bhumibol Adulyadej
Government
Work
Why
" The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. "
Thomas Sowell
Depend
Government
Left
" The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's failed every time it's been tried. "
Marco Rubio
Time
Government
Class
" Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it. "
Anthony Albanese
Government
Role
Constitution
" The role of the church and the government are fundamentally different. The church must always show compassion - always. "
Rick Warren
Government
Always
Church
" An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. "
Confucius
Than
Feared
Government
" Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. "
William Penn
Think
People
Government
" We cannot watch another family lose everything - risking their lives and the lives of the first responders sent to rescue them - because the flood insurance program's seal of government approval fooled them into thinking they were safe. That's more than wrong: it's immoral. "
Jeb Hensarling
Insurance
Family
Government
" When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility. "
Colin Powell
Government
You
Responsibility
" The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed. "
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