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" When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. "
Harry S Truman
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" It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work. "
Harry S Truman
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" Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay. "
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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" If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. "
Harry S Truman
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" I believe always you should have a philanthropic heart inside but business way. Because you have to get things done. That is what scientists tell us how to do properly. Business should tell us how to get things done efficiently. And government should have the good environment and the foundations of researching. "
Jack Ma
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" I'm a conservative who likes small government and lower taxes. "
Charlie Sykes
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Small
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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. "
Ai Weiwei
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" The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real. "
Bruce Jackson
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" Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it. "
Anthony Albanese
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Constitution
" When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties. "
Marquis de Lafayette
Sacred
Most
People
" A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion. "
Hugo Black
Religion
Union
Government
" In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment. "
Dennis Cardoza
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Power
" When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. "
Winston Churchill
Government
I Am
Home
" Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. "
Adrian Cronauer
Consent
Principle
Nation
" Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all. "
Thomas Sowell
Government
Without
Tax
" I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. "
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Better
Government
Peace
" Best thing for a government to do is to eliminate obstacles like filing registrations, getting licences, and so on... tedious steps slow everything down. "
Masayoshi Son
Obstacles
Government
Best
" The intelligence community is governed by the same legal and ethical standards as the rest of American government and society, but an operational imperative is here, too. An intelligence community charged with global responsibilities cannot be successful without diversity of thought, culture and language. "
Michael Hayden
Society
Community
Culture
" Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny. "
Harry S Truman
Fate
Actions
Grow
" Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. "
Ronald Reagan
Democracy
Worth
Dying
" A President cannot always be popular. "
Harry S Truman
President
Cannot
Always
" I think the Eritrean government is aware that any full-scale invasion of Ethiopia along the lines of 1998 could turn out to be suicidal... And we will not respond to any provocation short of all-out invasion. We are already engaged in a much more fruitful war - against poverty. "
Meles Zenawi
Poverty
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War
" In 2006, I entered the presidential palace in the main square of La Paz as the first indigenous president of Bolivia. Our government, under the slogan 'Bolivia Changes,' is committed to ending the colonialism, racism and exclusion that many of our people lived under for many centuries. "
Evo Morales
People
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Ending
" Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down. "
Robert Orben
Government
Up
Politicians
" 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. "
Bill Gates
Government
Perfect
Truth
" I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government. "
Lloyd Bentsen
Community
Government
Learning
" You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one. "
Rush Limbaugh
Case
You
Why
" A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants. "
Harry S Truman
Who
Some
Republican
" The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. "
James Madison
Rights
Government
Property
" Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. "
Theodore Roosevelt
Responsibility
People
Government