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" The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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" Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax credits, favorable regulations, bailouts, loan guarantees, targeted tax breaks and no-bid contracts. "
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" The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics. "
Orson Pratt
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Soul
Will
" The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse! "
Chinua Achebe
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" Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money. "
Benjamin Franklin
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" We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Deceived
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" We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government. "
William Howard Taft
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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
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" None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Free
" I'm a conservative who likes small government and lower taxes. "
Charlie Sykes
Taxes
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" Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government. "
Mackenzie King
Government
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Analysis
" The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. "
Barry Goldwater
Than
Act
Government
" To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates. "
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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" To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Torn
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" If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history. "
Adam Davidson
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" Strong government doesn't mean simply military power or an efficient intelligence apparatus. Instead, it should mean effective, fair administration - in other words, 'good governance.' "
Raghuram Rajan
Intelligence
Good
Power
" Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
World
Clean
Door
" There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people. "
Ray Bradbury
" The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly. "
Alexander Hamilton
Folly
Nothing
People
" Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information. "
Bill Gates
Information
Nothing
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" The Barrow Administration, with its misguided philosophy of big government wanting to own or control every facet of economic activity in Belize, has depressed and squeezed out the private sector. The inevitable result is mass firing of workers, foreclosures, and downsizing. "
Said Musa
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Control
" A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient. "
Annie Besant
Bad
People
Suffer
" One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected? "
Bill Gates
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" As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed. "
Drew Carey
You
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" The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. "
Lyn Nofziger
Good
Vote
People
" Many of our advances in science and technology were seeded through government. "
Valerie Jarrett
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Science
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" The American government will be whatever we all make of it. "
Megan Smith
American
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" We all want prosperity, but not at the expense of liberty. Poverty is not as great a danger to liberty as is wealth, with its corrupting, demoralizing influences. Let us never have a Government at Washington owing its retention to the power of the millionaires rather than to the will of millions. "
Joseph Pulitzer
Government
Want
Power
" A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government. "
Spiro T. Agnew
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Monopoly
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" The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That's why we have government. "
John McCain
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Crisis
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" Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing. "
Thomas Sowell
Data
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Nothing