Margaret Thatcher Quotes, Taken Quotes, Government Quotes

The larger the slice taken by government, the smaller the cake available for everyone.

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How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Government Quotes

There is some who say that perhaps freedom is not universal. Maybe it's only Western people that can self-govern. Maybe it's only, you know, white-guy Methodists who are capable of self-government. I reject that notion.

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Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Kings Quotes , Government Quotes

God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

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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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A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Class Quotes , Government Quotes

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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The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.

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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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Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled as they have been during the Bush administration. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance.

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Government Quotes , Tyrants Quotes

Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.

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Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King?

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I think American culture had just become so disengaged from the process of government, and we'd been so fuzzed out by our pop culture around us, that I don't think people really saw this guy for what he was.

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Tags : Adam McKay Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Government Quotes

But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress.

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For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.

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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Religious Quotes , Government Quotes

One of the challenges of a democratic government is making sure that even in the midst of emergencies and passions, we make sure that rule of law and the basic precepts of justice and liberty prevail.

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What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Government Quotes , Satanic Quotes