- People
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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
- Experiment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
- Framers
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
- Contribution
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.
- Nasty
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- Nov 07, 2020