Our Government Quotes
300 Our Government quotes by 224 unique authors
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In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.
— Joe Baca
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Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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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…
— William J. Brennan
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It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on…
— Jimmy Carter
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Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.
— Chris Christie
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Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.
— Hillary Clinton
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And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that…
— Sharron Angle
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You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it…
— Sharron Angle
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Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will not in my…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the principles and imbibe…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Perhaps Communists had wormed their way so deeply into our government on both the working and planning levels that they were able to exercise an…
— Mark W. Clark
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I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.
— Frances Farenthold
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With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war with Japan, in…
— J. William Fulbright
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A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
— Abraham Lincoln
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It is only through opening your hearts will you be able to see that by promoting freedom for all, you are unchaining yourself. I guess…
— Russell Simmons
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People who create things nowadays can expect to be prosecuted by highly moralistic people who are incapable of creating anything. There is no way to…
— Joseph Sobran
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Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)
— Gore Vidal
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If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."
— Gore Vidal
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Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but the chain they…
— Jefferson Davis
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Our government, taxes, and ideas of freedom are already duplicates of the Old World. Our politicians determine how we should live our lives - and…
— Harry Browne
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In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form…
— Benjamin Rush
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No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former…
— Thomas Jefferson
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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us
— Barack Obama
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In our government-controlled schools we are taught that Lincoln was our greatest president because his war ended slavery and saved the Union. As usual, the…
— Richard J. Maybury
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