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" The Pledge clearly acknowledges the fact that our freedoms in this country come from God, not government. "

Jay Alan Sekulow

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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. "

" As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press. "

" And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. "

" Short of a space-alien invasion or an Oklahoma tornado, there is almost no problem that a democracy can tackle in a year. But that isn't why we have a government. We have a government to solve the problems that greedy, short-sighted businessmen like me can't. "

" The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under. "

" If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion. "

Jay Alan Sekulow

" The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. "

" Democracy passes into despotism. "

" The Ethiopian government's use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended for the Ethiopian forces. "

" The art of government is the organisation of idolatry. "

George Bernard Shaw

" The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. "

" Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. "

" No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. "

Abraham Lincoln

" We are an important check on the powers of the executive. Our consent is necessary for the president to appoint jurists and powerful government officials and, in many respects, to conduct foreign policy. Whether we are of the same party, we are not the president's subordinates. We are his equal! "

" The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. "

" Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T. "

" No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards. "

Donella Meadows

" You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well. "

" So we need the same strategy, we need young, aggressive judges to be appointed, and that's what the President has done, but getting them through is the challenge. "

Jay Alan Sekulow

" Financial institutions, the corporate world and civil society - all must uphold high standards of probity in their working. Only a genuine partnership between the Government and its people can bring about positive change to create a just society. "

" 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. "

" The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. "

Barry Goldwater

" One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it. "

" If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality. "

Jay Alan Sekulow

" If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty. "

Anna Howard Shaw

" If people can't expect their government to be honest and clean, they can't expect anything from it. "

" Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out? "

Mitch McConnell

" A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none. "

" The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment. "