Barack Obama Quotes, Believe Quotes, Government Quotes

I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.

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It [a new world order] needs only that the governments of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia should get together in order to set up an effective control of currency, credit, production, and distribution – that is to say, an effective ‘dictatorship of prosperity,’ for the whole world. The other sixty odd States would have to join in or accommodate themselves to the over-ruling decisions of these major Powers.

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A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.

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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

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Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation or inflated currency of Bank bankruptcy.

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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

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In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.

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We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

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It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

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Even if the absence of government really did mean anarchy in a negative, disorderly sense - which is far from being the case - even then, no anarchical disorder could be worse than the position to which government has led humanity.

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As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.

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That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

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Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

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Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Religious Quotes , Government Quotes

The national government...will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality.

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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

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There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

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Our nonviolence vis-а-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

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The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.

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When government does its job properly people are free to do theirs.

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The mission of this government is much more than the promotion of economic progress. It is to renew the spirit and solidarity of the nation.

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