Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Teaching Quotes, Government Quotes

The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

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When taxes are too high, people go hungry. When the government is too intrusive, people lose their spirit. Act for the people's benefit. Trust them; leave them alone.

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To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

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Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must remain neutral as to the content of expression. And governments must protect the rights of all to express even the most despicable of views.

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Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

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Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

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Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.

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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

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There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

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Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

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Self-rule means that China must stop its intensive effort to colonize Tibet with Chinese settlers and must allow Tibetans to hold responsible positions in the government of Tibet.

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The firm basis of government is justice, not pity.

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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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We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

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But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?

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Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke.

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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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In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.

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Forms of government matter, in my opinion. It matters how -- the nature of the government in which people live.

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When Berkshire Hathaway laid out three billion dollars for GE today, we didn't spend it, we invested it. When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it. Now, they're investing it in distress type assets but they're buying them at distress prices if they buy them at market. It's the kind of stuff I love to do. I just don't have 700 million. Maybe we could go in it together.

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