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" The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. "
Herbert Spencer
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" Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls. "
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" 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. "
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" A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion. "
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" We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced. "
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" It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people. "
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" The framers hated the tyranny of King George, but they were also afraid of the mob. That's why they put so many checks and balances into our system, to guard against the excesses of a government that might be inflamed by public passion or perverted by a dictator's whim. "
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" Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination. "
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" But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government. "
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" Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders. "
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" The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force. "
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" The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality. "
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" 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. "
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" To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat. "
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" The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents. "
Noam Chomsky
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" Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy. "
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" One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt. "
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" The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years. "
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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. "
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" Government is essentially immoral. "
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" Only in South Africa could you have a change in government without civil war. If there wasn't the depth of love and caring among our people, this would not have happened. "
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" Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all. "
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" All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. "
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" The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded. "
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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. "
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" Since its inception, the government has broken and coerced treaties with hundreds of Native American tribes. And this is even worse when you realize that the native peoples of this land are negotiating for land that is, by all common sense and elementary school logic, their land. "
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" Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society. "
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" It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. "
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" The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people. "
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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. "
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