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We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.
I can imagine [the government] trying to tell Steven Spielberg 'We need 50 different cuts of your movie for each state.' It will screw us up in a real way.
We in Government have begun to recognize the critical work which must be done at all levels-local, State and Federal-in ending the pollution of our waters.
We do need the federal government to share information with us. We need local governments to increase supply. We need affordable places for people to live.
I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody.
Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.
The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way.
If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.
Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.
When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses a threat to liberty.
Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much.
Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.
To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.
ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.
A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.
Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order." - John V. Lindsay "No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.
I disapproved of the fact that the government here refused to adopt the few reforms that Gorbachev put over in the field of media and the field of culture.
So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.
I'm the kind of anarchist whose chief objection to the State is that it kills so many people. Government is the epitome of the deathist philosophy I reject.
Hope nothing from foreign governments. They will never be really willing to aid you until you have shown that you are strong enough to conquer without them.
We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.
Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.
I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
In practice, US officials seem to know better than to indulge in the patriotic myth that our constitution is the greatest system of government ever devised.
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
I believe that the primary role of the government is to protect people and not run their lives. You used to be able to believe that in the Democratic Party.
Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions
It must never be unpatriotic to support your country against your government. It must always be unpatriotic to support your government against your country.
On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.
You can see it in the worship of [Ronald] Reagan, which portrays him as somebody who saved us from government. Actually he was an apostle of big government.
Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.
I think some highly secret government UFO investigations are going on that we don't know about--and probably never will unless the Air Force discloses them.
Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.
Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.
Never blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous.
It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance.
It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.
It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads.
Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse.
Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.
Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.
For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.
The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.
Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.
The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per cent.
By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.
With all this consumer debt, business debt, government debt, smaller movements in interest rates have a magnified effect. a small movement can tip the boat.