Confucius Quotes, Stars Quotes, Government Quotes

Let a ruler base his government upon virtuous principles, and he will be like the pole-star, which remains steadfast in its place, while all the host of stars turn towards it

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I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

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If you hear what people had to say about Abraham Lincoln or what they had to say about FDR, or what they had to say about Ronald Reagan when he first came in and was trying to change our approach to government, that elicited huge responses.

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As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.

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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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The national government...will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Strong Quotes , Government Quotes

The more we can encourage entrepreneurship, particularly for young people, the more they have hope. That requires some reforms in these [African] governments: rooting out corruption, increased transparency and how government operates, making sure that regulations are not designed just to advantage elites, but are allowing people who have a good idea to get out there and get things done.

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Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Government Quotes , Violence Quotes

I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

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It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

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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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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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Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Self Quotes , Government Quotes

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

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Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?

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Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Government Quotes , Agriculture Quotes

The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

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The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler.

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[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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America is addicted to oil and increasing amounts of this oil comes from abroad. Some of the nations we depend on for oil have unstable governments or are hostile towards the United States.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Government Quotes , Oil Quotes