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

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And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

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Good government is no substitute for self-government.

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As restrictions and prohibitions are multiplied the people grow poorer and poorer. When they are subjected to overmuch government, the land is thrown into confusion.

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No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances.

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When people talked about protecting their privacy when I was growing up, they were talking about protecting it from the government. They talked about unreasonable searches and seizures, about keeping the government out of their bedrooms.

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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

I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.

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As president, I decided that a strong, confident America could advance our national security by engaging directly with the Iranian government. We've seen the results.

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I think the oversight is great, and I think that oversight ought to be devoted almost entirely to the question is this being done at market you know. In other words, you want to make sure that the government isn't investing foolishly. But you don't want to care about which congressional districts it goes to or whether banks get favored over.

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For splendor, there must somewhere be rigid economy. That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad, and the town must save that the State may spend.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Government Quotes , House Quotes

So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Government Quotes , Lust Quotes

I charge my wealthy clients a lot and put 10 per cent in a fund which I use to pay the expenses of my poorer clients. When the government gangs up on the poor schnook in the street, someone has to stand up for him.

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

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All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

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The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

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Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

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Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.

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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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