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Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

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Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

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

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Government Quotes , Institutions Quotes

It has become necessary to call the attention of European governments to a fact which is apparently so insignificant that the governments seem not to notice it. The fact is this: an entire people is being annihilated. Where? In Europe. Are there witnesses? One witness, the entire world. Do the governments see it? No.

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It is necessary for a Senator to be thoroughly acquainted with the constitution; and this is a knowledge of the most extensive nature; a matter of science, of diligence, of reflection, without which no Senator can possibly be fit for his office.

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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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Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has also chosen to be an enemy of civilization.

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Morality is the object of government.

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Faith-based organizations also need a guarantee they will not be forced to give up their right to hire people of their own faith as the price of competing for federal money. If we want this program to be effective and to save lives, people have got to say interfacing with government will not cause me to lose my mission.

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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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Our environment is too important to neglect and it's time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises.

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GOVERNMENT has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so far as it exists by their consent, useful only so far as it operates to their well-being.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Rights Quotes , Government Quotes

Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

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I don't want to jump the gun, [but] I will tell you, though, that my goal is to have the best possible government.

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The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

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If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

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I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.

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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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The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Government Quotes , United States Quotes

No duty is more imperative for the government than the duty it ;owes the people to furnish them with a sound and uniform currency, an of regulating the circulation of the medium of exchange so that labor will be protected from a vicious currency [private bank-created, interest-bearing debt], and commerce will be facilitated by cheap and safe exchanges.

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