Alan Watts Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Government Quotes

How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?

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No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Government Quotes

Compassionate conservatism [is] most importantly, making sure that government is not the answer to people's problems.

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

The program grew out of a desire to address a gap identified after 9/11 ... The program does not involve the NSA examining the phone records of ordinary Americans. Rather, it consolidates these records into a database that the government can query if it has a specific lead - phone records that the companies already retain for business purposes.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Phones Quotes , Government Quotes

At one end of the spectrum are the terrorist gangs within our borders, and the terrorist states which finance and arm them. At the other are the hard left operating inside our system, conspiring to use union power and the apparatus of local government to break, defy and subvert the law.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Law Quotes , Government Quotes

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

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Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Reality Quotes , Government Quotes

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

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Tags : William Henry Harrison Quotes , Adventure Quotes , Government Quotes

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

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Government Quotes

They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Government Quotes , Done Quotes

One of the challenges of a democratic government is making sure that even in the midst of emergencies and passions, we make sure that rule of law and the basic precepts of justice and liberty prevail.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Passion Quotes , Government Quotes

State are not made, nor patched; they grow; Grow slow through centuries of pain, And grow correctly in the main; But only grow by certain laws, Of certain bits in certain jaws.

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Tags : John Masefield Quotes , Pain Quotes , Government Quotes

The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Government Quotes , Operations Quotes

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Government Quotes , Politics Quotes

Government should do a few things, and do them right

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Government Quotes

I believe the best way to help our small businesses is not only through small-business loans, which we have increased since I've been the president of the United States, but to unbundle government contracts so people have a chance to be able to bid and receive a contract to help get their business going.

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

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

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Two Quotes , Government Quotes

All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Government Quotes

Secondly, there are such things as roving wiretaps. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires - a wiretap requires a court order. [...] Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so. [...]

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

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

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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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Fighting Quotes , Government Quotes