Barack Obama Quotes, Determination Quotes, Government Quotes

For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. So let us mark this day with remebrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled.

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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Power Quotes , Government Quotes

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.

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Tags : Alan Greenspan Quotes , Government Quotes , Support Quotes

The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Government Quotes , Order Quotes

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.

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Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

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I don't want to jump the gun, [but] I will tell you, though, that my goal is to have the best possible government.

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As the government is, such will be the man.

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Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.

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The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

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Net neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.

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The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Government Quotes , Class Quotes

To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.

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How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Government Quotes

The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.

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The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Government Quotes , Citizens Quotes

They want the federal government controlling the Social Security, like it's some kind of federal program.

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Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Government Quotes , Leader Quotes

I view the relationship with Canada as a vital relationship for the United States. The relationship, of course, is defined government-to-government. It's also defined people-to-people, and there's a lot of people in my country who respect Canada and have great relations with Canadians, and we intend to keep it that way.

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Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Government Quotes , Law Quotes