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My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that.
The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.
Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.
Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.
There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.
When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.
We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.
I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.
The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today.
I don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy.
I want to convey a message to the Sri Lankan government that they should seriously consider sending Sri Lankan Cricket Team to Pakistan.
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
As never before does the keeping of our economic machine in tune depend upon wise policies in the administrative side of the government.
I think that President George W. Bush was ahead of most of his government, in realizing that Putin was not the person we thought he was.
When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.
America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.
If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.
The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.
The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.
You don't have to be a political insider to know that Parliament, along with parts of the Government, has colluded in sabotaging Brexit.
The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.
If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?
If people in America would get their finances together and start taking care of each other, we could put the government out of business.
The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.
I have... submitted the resignation of the government, and I have declared that I will not be a candidate to head the (next) government.
Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.
If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
Al Gore had no problem taking hundreds of millions of dollars from the government of Qatar to sell his Current TV to Al Jazeera America.
The first big choice: a government with the strength to deliver stability, or a government that takes the country back to boom and bust.
Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead of the government.
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government.
An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.
The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.
A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.
No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.
Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
[J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right.
The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.
Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.
There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.
If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room.
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places.
A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.