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Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own.
Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
The question then will be, whether a consolidated government can preserve the freedom and secure the rights of the people.
We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.
The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government.
Sometimes the critics review me harshly for not being critical of government but it's not me who has said I was political.
It's up to me to promote my faith and somebody else to promote theirs. Let the government just protect our right to do so.
When people think of digital diplomacy, they think of government tweeting. It is not what it is. That is public diplomacy.
In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes.
Once people sense their own power, no authoritarian government can stand against the people who are determined to be free.
I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred
THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents sending children to the government to be educated.
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
It's no coincidence that trust in government is at an all-time low now that the size of government is at an all-time high.
A political satirist's job is to draw blood. I'm not so much interested in politics as I am in overthrowing the government.
We [the U.S.] think nothing... of attempting to inflict upon other peoples forms of government ill-tailored to their needs.
Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.
The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.
The Government's mission is to build a strong and fair Australia capable of meeting the new challenges of the 21st century.
We must move from revenue-neutral to revenue-reducing tax reform, because the federal government spends far too much money.
If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.
The Government's enthusiasm for 24 hour drinking puzzles me... We want people to be responsible, yet we urge them to drink.
The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.
Shut up! Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control. Here's Love Connection. Watch this and get fat and stupid.
It's like Tiger Woods' wife, we should take a nine iron to the back windshield of big government spending and smash it out.
If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide from the giant surveillance apparatus the government's been hiding.
Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.
The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.
This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.
Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they're all just made of people.
Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.
The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.
It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.
If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.
No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.
We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what we were up to.
I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.
That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.
It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.
Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.