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" The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. "

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" I think the Eritrean government is aware that any full-scale invasion of Ethiopia along the lines of 1998 could turn out to be suicidal... And we will not respond to any provocation short of all-out invasion. We are already engaged in a much more fruitful war - against poverty. "

" Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better. "

" A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward. "

Otto von Bismarck

" In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people. "

" Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. "

Sydney J. Harris

" The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. "

" A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government. "

Lysander Spooner

" We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. "

Abraham Lincoln

" In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. "

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

Thomas Jefferson

" For almost two centuries, American gray wolves, vilified in fact as well as fiction, were the victims of vicious government extermination programs. By the time the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, only a few hundred of these once-great predators were left in the lower 48 states. "

" Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf. "

" Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. "

James Russell Lowell

" It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States. "

" Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down. "

" As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed. "

" There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking. "

" I am almost inclined to say that India will get Dominion Responsible Government the day the Hindus and Muslims are united. "

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

" Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them. "

" Republican liberty depends on citizen participation, on a government that is of, for, and by the people. "

" A government is for the benefit of all the people. "

William Howard Taft

" Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information. "

" I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people. "

" Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India. "

" I stand today on this floor to appeal for protection from the strong arm of the government for her loyal children, irrespective of color and race, who are citizens of the southern states, and particularly of the State of Georgia. "

Hiram Rhodes Revels

" The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget. "

" Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better. "

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" I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. "

" 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. "

" A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad. "

Oliver Ellsworth