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Government Quotes
Testimony, accountability and risk assessment.
These "government" quotes come largely from public testimony and accountability — speakers describing appearances before Congress and the basic expectation that citizens deserve clear answers from officials. For related themes, see Business quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Morals
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- Nov 07, 2020
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.
- Financial System
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the policy of the federal government to use all resources at its disposal to make our financial system stronger.
- Assessed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
They wish for a general government of unity, as they see that the local legislatures must naturally and necessarily tend to retard the general government.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can recall back in 1998, in August of that year, when we had a horrible disaster along the Mexican border in the town of Del Rio. At the time, FEMA was the shining star of the federal government. It's now perceived as many to be the dullest knife in the drawer. Right or wrong, that's the perception.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020