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A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.
the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.
Government has no wealth of its own. Before it gives anything to anyone, it must take from those who produced it.
Government is contemptuous of true religion when it confiscates the taxes of Caesar to finance the things of God.
We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.
A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing job.
Hillary Clinton has been outsmarted and outplayed worse than anybody I've ever seen in any government whatsoever.
Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.
The founders of our nation feared paper currency because it gave government the means to steal from its citizens.
I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.
I applaud strong government, but not overweening government sustained by cronies, ciphers and a personality cult.
The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.
. . . behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things.
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government, but civilization itself.
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
I don't want to jump the gun, [but] I will tell you, though, that my goal is to have the best possible government.
Terrorism can go anywhere where there is not strong government, or government that cannot control its hinterlands.
We will drain the swamp in Washington, D.C., and replace it with a new government, of, and by, and for the people.
It is inconceivable that a secret arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government.
After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.
Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We - the American people - we are the solution.
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
I don't see the government as a beverage vending machine, where anyone who happens to be thirsty can grab a drink.
The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending.
A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.
I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.
Governments have a favorite phrase: lean and mean. But theyve been made very, very fat for corporate interests.
...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.
I love the Constitution and government of this land, but I hate the damned rascals that administer the government.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.
When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.
We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.
It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.
Unlike every other person and institution in society, government obtains its revenue from coercion, from taxation.
I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.
Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane.
Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.
The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.
The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.
It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.
The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
Whatever happens in a government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had.
Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.
The problem is: When two governments or institutions in Europe hold differing opinions, it is immediately a crisis.