They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.
George W. Bush
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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
Elbert Hubbard
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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight David Eisenhower
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Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.
Thomas Jefferson
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In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
George Washington
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Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification
Malcolm Wallop
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When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.
George Pataki
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The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - "to spew out paper."
Dave Barry
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Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
John Perry Barlow
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I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms
Henry Louis Mencken
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Despotism tempered by assassination, that is our Magna Carta.
[Fr., Le despotisme tempere par l'assassinat, c'est notre magna
charta.]
Unattributed Author
Quotes , Source: said by a Russian noble to Count Munster on the assassination of Paul I, emperor of Russia
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Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring
A Church without a bishop, a State without a King.
Unattributed Author
Quotes , Source: Puritan's Mistake
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Fear is the foundation of most governments.
John Adams
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The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made
by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an
insult.
John Quincy Adams
Quotes , Source: in an address to the citizens of Westmoreland County, Virginia
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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever
debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be,
decided among men. A resolution was passed without one
dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right
ought to be, free and independent States.
John Quincy Adams
Quotes , Source: in a letter to Mrs. Adams
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. . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to
determine whether a republican government is practicable in a
nation or not.
John Quincy Adams
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Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but
where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are
cities and walls.
John Quincy Adams
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