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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
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Robert Kennedy
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Believe
Crime
" Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility. "
Dalton Trumbo
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" In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. "
Voltaire
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Art
Possible
" The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision. "
Ho Chi Minh
Positive
Decision
Want
" The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That's why we have government. "
John McCain
People
Crisis
Government
" Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government. "
Thomas Sowell
Want
Government
Life
" Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong. "
Reince Priebus
Great
Opportunity
Strong
" The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people. "
Mike Pence
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Government
More
" We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger. "
Toussaint Louverture
Free
Will
Today
" Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination. "
Harry S Truman
Men
Mind
Suicide
" Americans are fed up with how things are going in the country right now. They see more job losses, rising debt and plummeting home sales. They feel let down by a government that passes one 2,000-page, trillion-dollar law after another instead of focusing on addressing the problems Americans worry about every day. "
Phil Gingrey
Worry
Home
Job
" The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine. "
Vladimir Putin
Medicine
Sometimes
Government
" 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
Rest
Government
People
" Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln. "
Will Rogers
Ohio
President
Look
" I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying. "
George Michael
American
Government
Bullying
" There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams - this is what makes our country so special. "
Valerie Jarrett
People
Roads
Work
" For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best. "
Alexander Pope
Government
Forms
Fools
" The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back. "
Paul Ryan
Belief
Better
Government
" Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud, and it's completely decentralized: not the Swiss government, not the American government. It's all the participants in the network enforcing. "
Naval Ravikant
Think
American
Bank
" The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament. "
Vladimir Lenin
Government
Years
Decide
" My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government. "
Narendra Modi
Man
Government
Want
" The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. "
Milton Friedman
Bad
Problem
Government
" Government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people; it wasn't intended to be all things to all people. "
Nikki Haley
Rights
People
Government
" Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. "
Bill Gates
Way
Money
Government
" One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue. "
Jim Ryun
Decision
Tax
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
" The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. "
Barack Obama
" Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people. "
Brian Eno
Hope
Best
People
" I think in the end the big issue is that the private sector still needs more help. And the answer is not more big government. I know in my state our reforms allowed us to protect firefighters, police officers, and teachers. "
Scott Walker
Help
Government
Think
" History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is. "
Thomas Jefferson
Only
Bad
Government