Voltaire Quotes, Government Quotes, Giving Quotes

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

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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 can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Government Quotes , Might Quotes

But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process. Without that, he said, the wolves will take over.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Government Quotes , People Quotes

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.

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Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to stop it.

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Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Government Quotes , Progress Quotes

If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

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Tags : Haile Selassie Quotes , Strong Quotes , Government Quotes

Net neutrality isn't a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.

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Tags : Al Franken Quotes , Government Quotes , Neutrality Quotes

I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.

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A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Government Quotes , Doe Quotes

What luck, for governments, that the people are stupid!

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Stupid Quotes , Government Quotes

My idea of government support was, you supply me with hospitals, schools and the environment to do well and that will do me fine. But do not poke your nose in my business.

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Tags : Alan Sugar Quotes , School Quotes , Government Quotes

A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Army Quotes , Government Quotes

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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Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Government Quotes , Law Quotes

Iraq failed for the same reasons that all conservative public policy efforts fail. Refusing to acknowledge the importance of government while relying on it to achieve your objectives causes the same kind of chaos in foreign policy that it does in matters closer to home.

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Tags : Alan Wolfe Quotes , Home Quotes , Government Quotes

When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses a threat to liberty.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Government Quotes , Law Quotes

The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Government Quotes , People Quotes

What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Government Quotes , Needs Quotes

I'll be honest, there have been times when I've listened to the rhetoric in Europe where an easy equivalent somehow between the United States and Russia and between how our governments operate versus other governments operate, where those distinctions aren't made.

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