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Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.
A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.
Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.
If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.
Economic planning is nothing more than the forcible superseding of other people's plans by the powerful elite backed up by the brute force of government.
I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed.
Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.
A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.
We are in a degenerate state of self-government. In fact, even to use the words self-government, is not only an exaggeration, it's a lie. It's a big lie!
Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in high places who understand the science but don't like where the policy leads them: too much government control.
The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.
Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .
A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.
Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require.
Marxism requires that we destroy God, because government must become God. And the only way for government to become God is to destroy the concept of God.
[The overthrow of the Castro regime] is the top priority of the US government. - all else is secondary - no time, no effort, or manpower is to be spared.
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.
If we had known that one of those terrorist attacks was coming, could our government have electronically eavesdropped on the attackers without a warrant?
By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my high school government and history teachers.
We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government.
I can't understand what's holding up our missile program. It's the first time the government ever had trouble making the taxpayers' money go up in smoke.
All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.
We don't measure our people's success in how they're doing in government. We measure how they are doing in the real world and the private sector economy.
There is no suggestion of regime change; quite the contrary, this is an initiative to help people and to help governments who are inclined toward change.
Conservatives say a lot about wanting the government stay out of our lives and businesses. We need to make sure the government stays out of our uteruses.
If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but governments as well.
For decades, our differences with Iran meant that our governments almost never spoke to each other. Ultimately, that did not advance America's interests.
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
I find that government can be a kind of gangsterism and is in Russia. And is likely to be in America if we don't take care of ourselves pretty carefully.
Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.
Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.
There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermingle with religion. Its least interference with it would be a most flagrant usurpation.
I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.
I was concerned about a couple of steps that the Russian government took in the last several days. One was reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia.
They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.
I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.
Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.
If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?
Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education.
I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.
Sometimes there's not a direct transfer of skills from business to government, but sometimes what happened in business would be really bad for government.
The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there's still a one-party system and strong censorship.
[D]ebt increases that didn't arise either from war or from extraordinary financial crisis are entirely associated with hard-line conservative governments.
If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy.
The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the yoke of tyranny, as America did.
The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation.
We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.