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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
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
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
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
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
Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom. — Hillary Clinton
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
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
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
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
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
I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government. — Frances Farenthold
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
A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. — Abraham Lincoln
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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