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" The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. "
Andrew Jackson
Sovereign
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People
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" You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic. "
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" From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way of government and a way of life. "
Robert Kennedy
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Life
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" In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. "
Alexis de Tocqueville
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" It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. "
Alexander Hamilton
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" The United States of America was originally an experiment. But it was an experiment in recognizing God-given individual liberty and creating a government in which we no one is deemed better than another. And in which all of us are equal. Not equal in abilities, but equal in intrinsic worth and value. "
Mike Huckabee
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" It is not in our interest to sign economic policy agreements with the IMF, as that unnecessarily limits the room to manoeuvre of... the Hungarian government, Hungarian parliament and lawmakers. "
Viktor Orban
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" Parliament of the country is the repository of the sovereign will of the people, and its successful functioning is a joint responsibility of both the government and the Opposition. "
Pratibha Patil
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" The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. "
Ludwig von Mises
Mankind
Endure
Bad
" If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it's expensive, and it has unquantified risks. And under those conditions, you cannot establish a capital-market evaluation of that enterprise. You can't get investors. "
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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" Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started. "
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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Just
Opportunity
" Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong. "
Reince Priebus
Great
Opportunity
Strong
" You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there. "
Dick Cheney
Take Care
Care
Fall
" If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also. "
Fred Woodworth
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Bad
Good
" 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
" If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword. "
Andrew Jackson
Now
Battle
Sword
" 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
Government
Giving
Debate
" Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. "
Ayn Rand
Legal
Man
Government
" I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more. "
Clint Eastwood
Responsibility
Government
Believe
" Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it. "
Andrew Jackson
Good
Precious
Life
" The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory. "
Evita Peron
Joy
I Am
Government
" The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations. "
Marc Faber
Government
Size
Nothing
" In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were government-sponsored enterprises, which hold hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgages, because of the losses they took on the mortgages, they essentially became insolvent, and the government had to take them over. "
Ben Bernanke
Housing
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Two
" The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real. "
Bruce Jackson
Poverty
You
Terrorism
" The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion. "
Preston Manning
Culture
Role
Religion
" The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. "
Lyn Nofziger
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Vote
People
" Now judicial review, beloved by conservatives, can, of course, fulfill the excellent function of declaring government interventions and tyrannies unconstitutional. But it can also validate and legitimize the government in the eyes of the people by declaring these actions valid and constitutional. "
Murray Rothbard
Government
Now
Eyes
" The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. "
Thomas Sowell
Depend
Government
Left
" It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot. "
Susan B. Anthony
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Government
Liberty
" A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. "
Alexis de Tocqueville
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" In the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the government called for an Internet 'unfettered by Federal or State regulation.' The result of that fateful decision was the greatest free-market success story in history. "
Ajit Pai
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History