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" Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. "
John Perry Barlow
Privacy
Window
Government
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" 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
Stand
Preparation
Help
" 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
" Many of our advances in science and technology were seeded through government. "
Valerie Jarrett
Technology
Science
Through
" I believe that, as Americans, our freedoms come from God and not government, and include the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "
Lisa Murkowski
Life
God
Government
" The American world had - seemingly, at least - become a Jeffersonian world by the election of 1800, which placed Thomas Jefferson in the presidency. Jefferson had been Hamilton's rival in the new government's early years, and Hamilton has figured in the public memory almost as much for that rivalry as for his positive achievements. "
Edmund Morgan
Election
Positive
Memory
" From my father's point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government. "
Thomas Steinbeck
Justice
Patriotism
Father
" Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. "
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Alien
Democracy
Government
" Every country has the government it deserves. "
Joseph de Maistre
Every
Deserves
Government
" The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. "
Anthony Kennedy
Government
First Amendment
Speech
" Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people. "
Grover Cleveland
Support
Though
Government
" History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. "
Thomas Jefferson
Only
Bad
Government
" Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. "
Abraham Lincoln
Egg
Only
New
" Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make. "
Mitch Daniels
Money
Growth
Good
" I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship. "
Bharati Mukherjee
Am
Citizenship
Government
" 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
" My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub. "
Grover Norquist
Goal
Down
Government
" There are a lot of kids out there copying and distributing movies - not because they care about seeing the movies or sharing them with their friends, but because they want to stick it to the movie business. "
John Perry Barlow
Movies
Business
Care
" It is not good to have a rule of many. "
Homer
Many
Rule
Government
" The very first act of the Confederate Government was to send commissioners to Washington to make terms of peace, and to establish relations of amity between the two sections. "
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
Act
Peace
Two
" The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. "
Andrew Jackson
Sovereign
Power
People
" Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. "
Milton Friedman
Want
Government
More
" The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way. "
Milton Friedman
World
Way
Self
" 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
" Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. "
Theodore Roosevelt
Responsibility
People
Government
" All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. "
Edmund Burke
Human
Government
Compromise
" A limited government is much more likely to be a competent government. "
Ron DeSantis
Government
More
Limited Government
" We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. "
Abraham Lincoln
Liberty
Government
History
" I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people. "
Phil Crane
Security
Government
People
" A heck of a lot more accountability comes from individuals or the church doing it than the government, that signs off on helping people at 5 o'clock, because it comes from the heart, not from a badge or a mandate. "
Doug LaMalfa
Heart
People
Government
" American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train's on track. They just keep ploughing ahead. "
Tom Wolfe
People
Government
American