940 private quotes tagged government

“Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.” — Mortimer Zuckerman

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“Americans no longer look to government for economic security rather, they look to their portfolios.” — Bill Owens

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“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.” — Milton Friedman

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“Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.” — Lord Acton

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“Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.” — Tom Robbins

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“Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law it invites every man to become a law unto himself it invites anarchy.” — Louis D. Brandeis

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“Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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“Democracy is an abuse of statistics.” — Jorge Luis Borges

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“We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.” — Wendell Phillips

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“The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.” — J. C. Watts

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“A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.” — Amos Bronson Alcott

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“Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.” — Sydney J. Harris

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“I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.” — Alexander Woollcott

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“The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.” — Nigel Farage

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“The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.” — Andrew Jackson

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“Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.” — Larry Flynt

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“Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.” — Dirk Kempthorne

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“Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.” — Norman Schwarzkopf

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“Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.” — James Russell Lowell

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“In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?” — Saint Augustine

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“If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.” — Carter G. Woodson

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“The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.” — Wilhelm Reich

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“Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.” — Robert Orben

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“These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better.” — Lucy Powell

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“I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.” — Billy Graham

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