Own Government Quotes
58 Own Government quotes by 45 unique authors
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
— Ansel Adams
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I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I…
— Madeleine Albright
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I'm generally never at a lack for words, but it's indescribable how poor the response was from our own government officials, ... We could have…
— Hannibal
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We...are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.
— Charley Reese
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The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements.
— J. William Fulbright
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The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per…
— 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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A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence…
— George Washington
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It's not healthy for a society if the people hate their own government.
— Garry Wills
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By creating the European Central Bank, the member states exposed their own government bonds to the risk of default. Developed countries that issue bonds in…
— George Soros
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We have many advantages in the fight against global warming, but time is not one of them. Instead of idly debating the precise extent of…
— John McCain
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Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does…
— Mother Teresa
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By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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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…
— Calvin Coolidge
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We have been lied to and terrorized by our own government, and it is time to take action.
— John Mellencamp
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The hatred Americans have for their own government is pathological ... at one level it is simply thwarted greed: since our religion is making a…
— Gore Vidal
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Similarly, establishing a firm timeline for bringing our troops home could accelerate the development of Iraqi security forces and deepen their commitment to defending their…
— Peter DeFazio
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Our own government has become our enemy.
— Chuck Baldwin
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Americans think their danger is terrorists. They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution.... The terrorists are…
— Paul Craig Roberts
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Collectively the media; the meat, oil, and dairy industries; most prominent chefs and cookbook authors; and our own government are not presenting accurate advice about…
— Caldwell Esselstyn
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At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and…
— Orson Pratt
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This is the first time in my experience... that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before the world.... Your…
— Harry S. Truman
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In a 91-part series of sob stories from the laid off and the disgruntled, The NY Times is in the midst of bemoaning 'the downsizing…
— Rush Limbaugh
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There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism.
— Ron Paul
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They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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