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" Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. "
Henry David Thoreau
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" As an Indian, and now as a politician and a government minister, I've become rather concerned about the hype we're hearing about our own country, all this talk about India becoming a world leader, even the next superpower. "
Shashi Tharoor
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Leader
Talk
" We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. "
Henry A. Wallace
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Industrial
Must
" Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community. "
George Mason
Good
Community
Kind
" When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn't have the skills or the strength to become the kind of public person who could go out and lobby government agencies. "
Frank Gehry
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Strength
Skills
" I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government. "
Gary Coleman
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Eyes
I Can
" Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell. "
Hugo Black
Off
Free
Government
" Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars. "
Henry David Thoreau
True
Generation
Great
" If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life. "
Henry David Thoreau
Life
Man
My Life
" I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated. "
Henry David Thoreau
Single Word
Word
Without
" Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. "
Henry David Thoreau
Experience
Wealth
Money
" No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. "
Abraham Lincoln
Good
Enough
Government
" Men have become the tools of their tools. "
Henry David Thoreau
Tools
Men
Become
" In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures. "
Winona LaDuke
American
Power
Integrity
" If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. "
Frank Herbert
Wise
You
Government
" The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. "
Henry David Thoreau
Desperation
Resignation
Quiet
" I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion. "
Leland Stanford
Women
I Am
Society
" 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
" Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy. "
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Care
Costs
Health
" No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'. "
Cal Thomas
Government
Mind
People
" Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. "
Abraham Lincoln
Perish
Shall
Earth
" The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy. "
Mikhail Gorbachev
Democracy
Want
People
" Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. "
Albert Einstein
Law
Government
Respect
" We are a nation of laws with respect and recognition of the rule of law. We are not an imperialist government with a monarch abiding by the rule of one man. "
Marsha Blackburn
Man
Law
Government
" Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse. "
Ronald Reagan
Government
You
Better
" The Founding Fathers built our judicial system to withstand the special interest pressures that beset the political branches of government. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Government
Judicial
Political
" If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end. "
Herbert Hoover
Then
Law
End
" Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. "
Benazir Bhutto
Best
Support
Government
" As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world. "
Noam Chomsky
Back
Decision
Government
" But only 'rich' people by definition have the 'extra' money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that 'extra' money away - and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times? "
Terry Savage
Politics
Growth
Tough Times
" I am almost inclined to say that India will get Dominion Responsible Government the day the Hindus and Muslims are united. "
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Day
Will
Government