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Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.
If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.
Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.
You know what I like about the American form of government? They've worked things out so that you're never far from a 7-Eleven.
Transparency in government, no less than transparency in choosing government, remains a vital national interest in a democracy.
A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.
Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.
The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known hereafter as the American language, and not the English language.
Governments, whether they're dictatorships or democracies, reflect the people. When the people get fed up, they throw them out.
When power is for sale, then government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.
By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.
The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.
Liberals want the government to get bigger, and they want you to drive smaller cars, and they want to dictate the way you live.
It's not government that makes business successful. It's not government investments that makes businesses grow and hire people.
It is very hard now to shock people into thinking about government regulation and the extent of government involvement in life.
The powers that be are trying to meld, shape, and corral the culture of hip-hop into another speaking voice for the government.
Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much.
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.
If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it’s an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.
Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show.
Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.
After eight years in government, Mr Blair has precious little to show for his ambitious plans to heal the divisions in society.
I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics in my country."
Demonstrators for a government takeover of medicine have a right to discuss their demands, but no right to enact these demands.
It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.
There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.
Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.
In the highest government office, you have to be ready to bow out at any time, otherwise you are not a free individual anymore.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.
Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people.
The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice.
We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be
What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.
You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel.
Any nation that allows the government to dominate its monetary and economic policies will ultimately suffer grave consequences.
US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government.
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
When government does more than guard against the initiation of force, inevitably it becomes a means of theft and bamboozlement.
If you want to learn about the whole government and how it operates, the Appropriations Committee is the best place to learn it.
We have a balance of $ .32 in the bank . . . Which makes us four-and-a-half trillion dollars richer than the federal government.
Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.
A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.
Your money has never been safe in the government's hands, and it never will be. Governments spend money; it's just their nature.
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government.
It is high time our government take action and do everything in its power to help reduce gun violence in America and save lives.
Bitcoin is not “unregulated”. It is regulated by algorithm instead of being regulated by government bureaucracies. Un-corrupted.