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We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.
America must listen. It must listen to the interests of others. But the US government has no interest in similarities, no matter how obvious.
A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government.
Why is it that any time government takes over something for a few years, its assumed that people are too incompetent to do it for themselves?
I'm going to fight for every person in America who believes government should serve the people, not the donors and not the special interests.
Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.
Those policies - more taxes, more regulation, more debt, more spending, more government - will make American worse. It just will, in my view.
It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst.
When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.
A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb the gallop of events.
[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.
The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.
BJP is not going to the people only to form a government. We have come to the people to give stability and a development oriented government.
Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.
The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.
We have pledged to be the greenest government ever. We must lead by example...We are not asking others to do things we will not do ourselves.
The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government
The government can reasonably rely on debt ratings when it forms programs to lend money to buyers of otherwise unattractive debt instruments.
Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.
To promote the sales of GM vehicles, Obama says the government will stand by your GM car warranty. And all the taxpayers will get a lube job.
Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.
No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that is had one-sided government.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.
If you are focusing your anger at government, you are focusing your anger at all of us. Government is just a personification of this country.
Taking money from job creating entrepreneurs and giving it to ever-failing government programs has to be the ultimate in economic illiteracy.
If you disagree with your government, that's political. If you disagree with your government that is approaching theocracy, then you're evil.
It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.
I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.
It's the government's job to encourage entrepreneurialism and investment. Most importantly, it's the government's duty to inspire confidence.
A lot of films in Canada are subsidized by the government, and compared to a studio, the government really stays out of your face creatively.
Government is an inherently inflationary institution and will ever remain so until it is dispossessed of its monopoly of the supply of money.
I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government.
Normally, the opposition gets more media space and even the people find it interesting to listen to voices against the government of the day.
It is important never to forget our history, but parts of our history are more appropriately displayed in museums, not on government property.
America's remaining wild horses are under aggressive attack and rapidly disappearing from government-managed, citizen-owned wilderness spaces.
A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
I have found that leadership is leadership is leadership. It applies whether you are in government or in corporate life or in non-profit life.
I think it is in the interest of the people of [Serbia] that no one, not even the government, can get away with the crime, whoever the victim.
Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.
Let's get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let's take a stand for personal freedom.
It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.
The government favors the most diplomatic language. That's why any letter to them should always start with, "Dear turkeys and foul maggots..."
It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.
Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke.