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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
Government
Concentration
Power
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" 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
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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
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" There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. "
P. J. O'Rourke
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" Democracy passes into despotism. "
Plato
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" The government of India and the government of Jammu and Kashmir are determined to ensure that every Kashmiri lives with dignity having equal rights and equal opportunities. "
Pranab Mukherjee
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" 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
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" Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people. "
Grover Cleveland
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" The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. "
H. L. Mencken
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" I can recall back in 1998, in August of that year, when we had a horrible disaster along the Mexican border in the town of Del Rio. At the time, FEMA was the shining star of the federal government. It's now perceived as many to be the dullest knife in the drawer. Right or wrong, that's the perception. "
Henry Bonilla
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" Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas. "
Larry Wilmore
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Sea
City
" We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. "
Ayn Rand
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" A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. "
Thomas Jefferson
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Government
People
" The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated. "
William E. Simon
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Group
" 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
" I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion. "
Leland Stanford
Women
I Am
Society
" There's an inverse relationship between the size and scope of government and the health of our free-market economy. "
Marsha Blackburn
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Government
Relationship
" This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances. "
Gracie Allen
Government
Checks And Balances
Now
" To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. "
Wendell Phillips
Law
You
Talk
" A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility. "
Wayne Dyer
Mad
Government
Responsibility
" I'm a conservative who likes small government and lower taxes. "
Charlie Sykes
Taxes
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" You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there. "
Dick Cheney
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Care
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" There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do. "
Bill Bryson
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Alcohol
America
" You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic. "
Michael Novak
You
Run
Doing
" The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them. "
Cullen Hightower
Bad
Keep
Trying
" The framers hated the tyranny of King George, but they were also afraid of the mob. That's why they put so many checks and balances into our system, to guard against the excesses of a government that might be inflamed by public passion or perverted by a dictator's whim. "
David Ignatius
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Passion
Tyranny
" The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought. "
Martin Van Buren
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Excitement
Government
" 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. "
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Good
" Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule. "
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" In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were government-sponsored enterprises, which hold hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgages, because of the losses they took on the mortgages, they essentially became insolvent, and the government had to take them over. "
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" Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners. "
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