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" The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. "
Hubert H. Humphrey
Helping Hand
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" In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. "
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" If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. "
Will Rogers
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" The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. "
Thomas Jefferson
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" American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon. "
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" Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. "
Benjamin Franklin
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" This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us. "
Hubert H. Humphrey
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" Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests. "
C. Wright Mills
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" When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties. "
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Most
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" In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home. "
Abraham Lincoln
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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. "
Thomas Rex Lee
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Justice
Decisions
" The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserve a responsible government that seeks to address their needs, not more ideological dogma. "
Jose Serrano
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" I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.' "
Ann Richards
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Government
Me
" The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands. "
Bhumibol Adulyadej
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" If you work for the federal government, the average salary is $7,000 higher than the private sector. Something's wrong with that, when you're making more money working for the government than you can working in the private sector. "
Jesse Ventura
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Work
Money
" It has always been the role of government to help solve problems, including and especially health crises. Obesity is a health epidemic across our country, and we have a responsibility as a government and a society to do all we can to promote good nutrition and healthy eating so we can reverse this alarming trend. "
Richard J. Codey
Good
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" The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. "
Henry Ward Beecher
World
Government
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" Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule. "
Gerald R. Ford
People
Government
Great
" The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. "
Ayn Rand
Live
Impossible
Men
" That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one. "
Abraham Lincoln
Support
Government
Now
" The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead. "
Donald Trump
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Any
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" I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm. "
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You
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" The happiness of society is the end of government. "
John Adams
Society
End
Government
" Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. "
George Bernard Shaw
Government
Corrupt
Democracy
" Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong. "
Ron Paul
Government
Wrong
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" When the Constitution was written in 1787, there was this supposition that American politics would be above party. The people who would staff the positions in government would have the interests of the country, or at least their states and congressional districts, at heart, and so they wouldn't form permanent political parties. "
H. W. Brands
Heart
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Government
" Government has to be cut back like asparagus... every day... or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there's too much of it, the flower becomes a weed. "
Paul Harvey
Day
Seed
Government
" Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. "
Edmund Burke
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Turns
Out
" We cannot watch another family lose everything - risking their lives and the lives of the first responders sent to rescue them - because the flood insurance program's seal of government approval fooled them into thinking they were safe. That's more than wrong: it's immoral. "
Jeb Hensarling
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Family
Government
" Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better. "
Harry Browne
Control
Best
Life
" Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community. "
George Mason
Good
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Kind