- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
- Great Republic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want for us to be self-sustained so we can export. The government has a responsibility to have agricultural programs so people are able to grow their own food.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury to the tail could take nearly a minute to be communicated to the sauropod brain.
- Choice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020