Winston Churchill Quotes, Taken Quotes, Government Quotes

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

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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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Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

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They should rule who are able to rule best.

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Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.

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The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

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The government that is wise will consider what is best for all its people.

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The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure... It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies.

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Our enemies are a radical network of terrorists - and every government that supports them.

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Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.

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America is addicted to oil and increasing amounts of this oil comes from abroad. Some of the nations we depend on for oil have unstable governments or are hostile towards the United States.

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Before Alar, there was EDB, a potent human carcinogen allowed in the grain supply and other food for more than a decade after it was known to be dangerous. There was heptachlor, linked to leukemia, and aldicarb, which poisoned thousands of California watermelons, yet is still allowed in potatoes and bananas at levels exposing up to 80,000 children a day to what EPA itself says are unacceptable high risks. Trust the government? Why should we?

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It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Government Quotes , Hard Quotes

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Art Quotes , Government Quotes

Our intelligence agencies will continue to gather information about the intentions of governments - as opposed to ordinary citizens - around the world, in the same way that the intelligence services of every other nation does. We will not apologize simply because our services may be more effective.

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