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" The government's only functions are to protect the rights of the individual; therefore, you need a police force and an army. "
Neil Peart
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" The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy. "
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" Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation. "
Gavin Newsom
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" But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach anyone in college that government is the problem - except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem. "
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" If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government. "
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" Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. "
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" Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. "
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" Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. "
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" If drummers are 'anti-solo,' that's up to them. They're musicians, and they can play whatever they want. But my inspirations early on were people like Buddy Rich, seeing him on 'The Tonight Show', or Gene Krupa. "
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" Under the leaden sway of Alexander III's government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of all hopes for peaceful reforms and by the apparent ineffectiveness of the revolutionary movement, was in the grip of a mood of depression and resignation. "
Rosa Luxemburg
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" The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people. "
Ezra Stiles
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" The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge. "
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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" By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. "
John Maynard Keynes
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" Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them. "
Thomas Frank
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" In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? "
Saint Augustine
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" The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. "
P. Chidambaram
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" The trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn by lot from the mass of the people, for the very purpose of having all classes of minds and feelings, that prevail among the people at large, represented in the jury. "
Lysander Spooner
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" The economical policies that are instigated really makes you think that the American government is a bunch of evil bastards. So just because you're black, you're still representing that government, and when Obama came into office he enacted the same policies that we would critique other presidents for. "
Lupe Fiasco
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" Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. "
Ronald Reagan
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" 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
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God
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" We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens. "
Ted Cruz
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" Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them. "
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" If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. "
Frank Herbert
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" The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. "
Ted Nugent
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" For me to call myself a musician, it's necessary to play live, and it rewards so much - not just in the pay cheque sense but what it does for my playing. I feel it through a tour - I feel it at the end of a tour - all that I've gathered, and especially now that I am improvising so much. "
Neil Peart
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" The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive. "
David Mamet
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" The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting. "
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" If men were angels, no government would be necessary. "
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" While we can never truly repay the debt we owe our heroes, the least we should do for our brave veterans is to ensure that the government takes a proactive approach to delivering the services and benefits they have earned, so they can access the care they need and so richly deserve. "
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" A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others. "
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" Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety. "
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