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What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

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It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.

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Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

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To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

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Public opinion in this country is everything.

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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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What you do is as important as anything government does. I ask you to seek a common good beyond your comfort; to defend needed reforms against easy attacks; to serve your nation, beginning with your neighbor. I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

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Health care has become a proxy for a broader set of issues about how much government should be involved in our economy, particularly coming off a huge economic crisis.

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Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are dark and doubtful.

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Should one whole year from this July 4th pass while the crimes of this government are allowed to continue, we may have passed the point at which non-violent revolution becomes impossible.

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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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Democratic institutions are necessary and very important, and if I remained at the head of government, it could be an obstacle to democratic practice. Also, if I were to remain, then I would have to join one of the parties. If the Dalai Lama joins one party, then that makes it hard for the system to work.

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Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

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For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

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It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance on the excesses of the federal government.

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It is the function of God Rama to destroy evil, wherever it occurs and it is equally the function of God Rama to give to his devotees like Bibhishana a free charter of irrevocable self-government.

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

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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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