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Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

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There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

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Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.

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The bulk of government is not legislation but administration.

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Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world's peoples.

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The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.

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No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing.

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The national government...will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality.

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Let them obey that knows not how to rule.

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Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.

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It's the Labour Government that have brought us record peacetime taxation. They've got the usual Socialist disease - they've run out of other people's money.

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The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

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Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

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We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the federal government. And they don't take that from me on capital gains. They don't take that from me on dividends.

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The object of government is the welfare of the people.

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Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs

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I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

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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 power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

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The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

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