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An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.
The big tech companies understood that the government had not only damaged American principles, it had hurt their businesses.
Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.
As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship.
The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?
I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.
When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.
When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on [gay] marriage, that's when it's time to resist.
No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.
What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.
The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.
When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.
It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.
We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers.
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.
Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
We can't depend on consumers to spend money they don't have on stuff they don't need, so the government has to do it for them
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.
For members who have only ever been in government, the negativity and aggressiveness of the opposition is easy to caricature.
I believe that the Government's first duty is to defend its citizens, to defend them against the harms that come out of hate.
What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?
I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it.
Legalizing abortion to get government out of the bedroom is like legalizing cannibalism to get government out of the kitchen.
I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.
I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was never picked as captain.
The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.
Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
Based on every statement I’ve heard out of any Republican in the last two years, the Israelis are controlling our government.
Nothing rectifies out-of-control market failures like a healthy dose of government intervention and mountains of bureaucracy.
Help the Cubans to the utmost counseling his successor while handing over the reins. We cannot let Castro's government go on.
The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.
For fifty years now, we have tried big government. Yet too many people remain trapped in despair. Now, we must try a new way.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.
The United States enjoy a scene of prosperity and tranquility under the new government that could hardly have been hoped for.
London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.
I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we spend.
The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control.
Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.
I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.
My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.