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" Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile. "
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Responsibility
Democracy
Government
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" The Church of Christ is constituted in two orders, the clergy and the people, the one having the care of the Church that all may be ruled for the salvation of souls; the other contains kings, princes, and nobles who have to carry on secular government that all things may lead to the peace and unity of the Church. "
Thomas Becket
Peace
People
Unity
" Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it. "
Will Rogers
Our
Country
Government
" All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. "
Edmund Burke
Human
Government
Compromise
" As elected officials, we were sent to the halls of government by our neighbors to do their work - and much work needs to be done. Remembering our shared experiences with the people we represent makes us better and more accountable civil servants. "
Amy Klobuchar
Work
People
Government
" In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? "
Saint Augustine
Absence
Government
Organized
" Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. "
Milton Friedman
Nation
Government
Military
" We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. "
Wendell Phillips
Live
Men
Morning
" All government wars are unjust. "
Murray Rothbard
Wars
Government
Unjust
" A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people. "
Brad Henry
Government
Duty
Protect
" The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge. "
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Government
Speed
Strong
" History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. "
Vladimir Putin
Government
History
Only
" If men were angels, no government would be necessary. "
James Madison
Men
Angels
Were
" 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
Liberty
Government
History
" My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub. "
Grover Norquist
Goal
Down
Government
" Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money. "
Benjamin Franklin
Money
People
Government
" The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. "
James Madison
Power
Graduation
Hands
" The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. "
Thomas Jefferson
Easy
First
Office
" Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. "
Frederic Bastiat
Live
Government
Great
" I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us. "
Teri Garr
Step
More
Government
" A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others. "
Larry Ellison
Others
Goal
Big
" I don't believe any person looking for work is fearful of political judgment. Government is a large institution, and if they believe that people are going to get rid of good employees for political reasons, that's absurd. "
Jan Brewer
Good
Looking
Government
" 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. "
Robert E. Lee
Government
Sword
People
" One's ability to enter into thousands of lawsuits as a tool for success, or to use bankruptcy to avoid paying your former employees and vendors, have little relevance when trying to create good government. "
John Hickenlooper
Government
Success
Employees
" Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government. "
Sun Myung Moon
Control
You
Say
" I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars. "
Ted Yoho
Government
Than
More
" The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That's why we have government. "
John McCain
People
Crisis
Government
" 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
Liberty
Country
Government
" The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting. "
William J. Brennan, Jr.
Government
Bill Of Rights
Our
" But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people. "
Maynard James Keenan
Government
Us
People
" I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat. "
Pierre Trudeau
Reading
Meet
Boat