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" To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up. "
Michael Franti
Government
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Giving Up
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" Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong. "
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" As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States. "
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" The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders. "
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" Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up. "
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" After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do. "
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" We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government. "
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" The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts. "
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" Racism is not first and foremost a skin problem. It is a sin problem. See, when you believe that racism is a skin problem, you can take three hundred years of slavery, court decisions, marches, and the federal government involvement and still not get it fixed right. "
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" San Francisco has always been a haven for misfits and weirdos. I'm both of those, which is why I came here. "
Michael Franti
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Been
Always
" Truth is the glue that holds government together. "
Gerald R. Ford
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" 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
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History
" I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females). "
Abraham Lincoln
Right
Taxes
Sharing
" Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. "
Louis D. Brandeis
Man
Anarchy
People
" If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine. "
Henry David Thoreau
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Government
Law
" If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. "
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Would
Selling
" A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it. "
Dean Inge
Government
Blessings
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" The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. "
Lord Acton
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" Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living. "
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Time
" Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility. "
Dalton Trumbo
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Responsibility
Business
" 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. "
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" In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference. "
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" Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don't have to be foreign countries. "
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Mean
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John C. Calhoun
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" In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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" In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the government bureaucratic stovepipes that inhibit our abilities to effectively defend America while ensuring citizens' privacy and civil liberties are also protected. "
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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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You
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" The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. "
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Save
People
Allow
" Government has to be cut back like asparagus... every day... or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there's too much of it, the flower becomes a weed. "
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Day
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" You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one. "
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