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Government Quotes by Patrick Henry
- The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that…
- The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among other…
- My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.
- Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to…
- You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people, but how your…
- The officers of Congress, may come upon you now, fortified with all the terrors of paramount federal authority. Excisemen taxmen may come in multitudes; for…
- The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -…
- Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted…
- No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and…
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- 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
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