- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government Quotes
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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.
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- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think any good judge recognizes his or her place in our constitutional government, and that place is not to upset the will of the people as expressed through their elected representatives.
- Appearance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Partisanship particularly increased after the 1994 elections and then the appearance of the first unified Republican government since the 1950s.
- Destitute
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- Nov 07, 2020
ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
- Clergy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Church of Christ is constituted in two orders, the clergy and the people, the one having the care of the Church that all may be ruled for the salvation of souls; the other contains kings, princes, and nobles who have to carry on secular government that all things may lead to the peace and unity of the Church.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
A paperwork error can get you on the fly list. A name similar to someone else can get you on the fly list, so there's any number of opportunities where mistakes or abuses could probably put somebody in that horrible position of a government agency really clawing back your rights.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
We already have two branches of federal government that factor political considerations into their decision-making, and our Founding Fathers determined long ago that we don't need a third.
- Thrive
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Senate, I will work to shrink the size of our federal government to its core Constitutional role so the private sector can thrive.
- Difficult Decisions
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- Nov 07, 2020
We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.
- Government Officials
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- Nov 07, 2020
In general, I avoided giving lectures or attaching myself while abroad to a university. To learn what I wanted to know, I went instead to rural communities and onto actual farms. Talk with university people, government officials and U.S. personnel stationed in the country was much less rewarding for me.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020