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Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people.
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
What we are seeing is there is a lot of anger out there about the failure of the government to resolve the immigration crisis.
Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.
There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism.
We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay.
I believe we're past the point where the government or the private sector can solve all problems, it's all about partnerships.
If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war.
Your honor, throughout this process I've asked the government and the court to hold me and only me accountable for my actions.
The most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state.
Government spending reduces the capital that could be invested to serve consumers and to produce new employment opportunities.
I don't think the federal government or federal candidates should be making decisions on everything and opining on everything.
Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.
Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.
I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
Lawmakers need to be held accountable and should feel the impact of a government shutdown just like many other Americans will.
In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government.
To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.
I love talking about Kennedy assassination...a great archetypal example of how totalitarian government...sorry, wrong meeting.
So let me get this straight. Government can't track illegals and out of date visas, but they know who you called this morning?
I do not believe that the government should have its long nose poked into the private consensual relationships between people.
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.
It was one of the late Conservative Government's gestures towards agriculture -- graceful as a kiss, and of about as much use.
For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.
Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.
We know that government intervention in the free market, and Argentine history has shown this, absolutely ends in a boomerang.
I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the publics trust.
Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.
The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.
Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.
The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.
The U.N. is an American-based bastion of foreign spies. Russia has more spies in the U.S. than there are members of the F.B.I.
More and more Congressmen now stay in Washington all year-round because they can't stay at home under the laws they've passed.
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.
Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?
The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.
I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.
The Commerce Clause has already been inflated so much that we basically can't do anything without the government's permission.
Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.
Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.
One of the reasons that I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over.
There is so much chaos and dysfunction going on with the federal government that Dallas can't wait any longer for federal help.
Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care
I ask the Philippines Government to put an end to journalists' killings by giving journalists' safety the priority it deserves.
The principal villain in rising health care costs is the government. Not pharmaceutical companies, not doctors, but government.