A. P. Herbert Quotes, Business Quotes, Government Quotes

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

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If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

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As president, I decided that a strong, confident America could advance our national security by engaging directly with the Iranian government. We've seen the results.

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Secondly, there are such things as roving wiretaps. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires - a wiretap requires a court order. [...] Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so. [...]

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But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process. Without that, he said, the wolves will take over.

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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

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Health care has become a proxy for a broader set of issues about how much government should be involved in our economy, particularly coming off a huge economic crisis.

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A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

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Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

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I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

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Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

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When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

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Government without a tough and vibrant media is not an option for the United States of America.

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We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

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We shouldn't assume that government is always trying to do the wrong thing.

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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

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A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.

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Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.

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Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

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