Oscar Wilde Quotes, Prayer Quotes, Government Quotes

The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Government Quotes

If any individual who objects to government policy can take it in their own hands to publicly disclose classified information, then we will never be able to keep our people safe or conduct foreign policy.

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When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation

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I want to say 'I Shot The Police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I Shot The Sheriff' insteadbut it's the same idea: justice.

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If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

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The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

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Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.

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Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.

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Forms of government matter, in my opinion. It matters how -- the nature of the government in which people live.

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What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.

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The corporation that shrinks from the light" would have anything to fear from government. About the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Light Quotes , Government Quotes

[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

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The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

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

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The object of government is the welfare of the people.

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In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role.

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You don't take it personally. You understand that if people are angry that somehow the government is failing, then they are going to look to the guy who represents government.

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Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Government Quotes , Lust Quotes

So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.

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