Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Two Quotes, Government Quotes

Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].

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Our new faith-based laws have removed government as a roadblock to people of faith who hear the call.

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I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular government; and to redress wrongs already long enough endured.

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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

Let only individuals contribute - with sensible limits per election. Otherwise, we are well on our way to ensuring that a government of the moneyed, by the moneyed, and for the moneyed shall not perish from the earth.

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How very popular to say, 'spend more on this, expend more on that.' And of course, we all have our favorite causes; I know I do. But someone has to add up the figures. Every business has to do it, every housewife has to do it, [and] every government should do it.

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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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In representing criminal defendants - especially guilty ones - it is often necessary to take the offensive against the government: to put the government on trial for its misconduct. In law, as in sports, the best defense is often a good offense. The courtroom oath - to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth - is applicable only to witnesses... because the American justice system is built on a foundation of not telling the whole entire truth.

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Tags : Alan Dershowitz Quotes , Sports Quotes , Government Quotes

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

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Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. . . . We must strive for normalcy to reach stability.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Government Quotes , Presidential Quotes

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by no means excluding females.

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It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Government Quotes

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

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The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities.

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Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

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We should use this public sphere and redefine - beyond China's borders - what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen's privacy begins.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Government Quotes , Spheres Quotes

The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties of his own constitution, which work with more energy than we believe, whilst we depend on artificial restraints.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Believe Quotes , Government Quotes

It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according to the tempers of their lords, but democratic states according to established laws.

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Tags : Aeschines Quotes , Government Quotes , Law Quotes

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

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Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.

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