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

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" Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's national unity government. "

" If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost. "

" I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an invisible, divine entity created an entire universe just for us, or that the government is stockpiling space aliens in a secret desert location. "

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" Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. "

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

" There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic. "

" In philanthropy, many of us give a little bit and each year we give more and more to see what actually works and not just throw money out there and see if it's going to work. If the government did the same thing, fabulous. "

John Paul DeJoria

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

James Russell Lowell

" Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government. "

" If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public. "

" The government can't create jobs; they'll destroy jobs trying to do it. The government doesn't have any money; all they have is a printing press. We need to free markets to create jobs; if the government wants to help, they should reduce their burden on the economy. "

" Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. "

" Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. "

" I don't think people maybe think that the government does tell them the truth. I think they expect politicians who are going to tell them one thing and then when they get in office do something else. "

" Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. "

" We must work toward cyber doctrine that reflects the wisdom of free markets, private competition, and the important but limited role of government in establishing and enforcing the rule of law, honoring the rights of personal property, the benefits of free and fair trade, and the fundamental principles of liberty. "

" I thought the irreducible requirements of Republicanism were being for life, small government, and a strong national defense. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. "

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" 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

" A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion. "

" It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people. "

" Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government. "

" Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government. "

" The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people. "

" The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion. "

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" Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. "

Thomas Jefferson