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- It is all the more necessary under a system of free government that the people should be enlightened, that they should be correctly informed, than…
- What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government. It has been…
- Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do. This…
- We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity…
- One insidious practice which sugar-coats the dose of Federal intrusion is the division of expense . . .
- A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but…
- No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out of the people…
- I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters…
- It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to…
- We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an…
- I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of…
- A government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the individual must be independent and…
- While legislation can stimulate and encourage, the real creative ability which builds up and develops the country, and in general makes human existence more tolerable…
- Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values…
- Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past…
- Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help to sustain ideals…
- We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts....…
- After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.
- Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It is not adopted in criticism of others in the slightest degree, but solely…
- What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.
- If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part in the control.…
- We do not need more material development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power. We…
- One day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate tours. When Mrs.…
- Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be…
- If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government... The whole system of American Government rests on the…
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- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government. — Joe Arpaio
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
- Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. — Bill Ayers
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida