Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Government Quotes, People Quotes

We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves.

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

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

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Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

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Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.

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So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

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Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

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When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.

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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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It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

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The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.

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For decades, our differences with Iran meant that our governments almost never spoke to each other. Ultimately, that did not advance America's interests.

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The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.

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I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.

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The oil companies are really making a very lucrative amount of profit from the high price of oil. I don't that they're very keen to reduce the price of oil. The consumers are those who are the victims so I think that the producers, the governments, some of them, they're enjoying the high revenue that they get.

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[Giving welfare to poor people] is the equivalent of the government sending [fat people] a jumbo bag of Bugles in the mail twice a month.

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Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection.

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Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

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You know the critical thing with the Communist countries is Communism, which by definition consists of control by the government.

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Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.

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