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" 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

First Amendment

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" That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part. "

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" I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it. "

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" Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty. "

Hubert H. Humphrey

" Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven. "

" The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. "

" Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment. "

Anthony Kennedy

" So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government. "

" I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. "

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" Many of our advances in science and technology were seeded through government. "

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" Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me. "

" The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth. "

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" A Supreme Court justice needs to understand that he is not a politician. He needs to understand that the judiciary is a passive branch of government. His decisions should not proactively seek to set policy. "

" The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. "

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" 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. "

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" Individual people shouldn't be fearful, because by and large our government, the federal government - people always talk; obviously, they don't trust the feds, whatever. The federal government and local communities have done a pretty good job at keeping us safe. "

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Herbert Spencer

" In philanthropy, many of us give a little bit and each year we give more and more to see what actually works and not just throw money out there and see if it's going to work. If the government did the same thing, fabulous. "

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