Systems Of Government Quotes
41 Systems Of Government quotes by 38 unique authors
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If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not 'Harry Potter?'
— Lewis Black
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Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and incensing them to…
— Thomas Paine
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The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites…
— William O. Douglas
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Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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The fact that you see salarymen reading manga and pornography on the trains and being unafraid, unashamed or anything, is something you wouldn’t have seen…
— Hideaki Anno
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For the system of government you fashioned including the very principles on which you based it, is increasingly obsolete, and hence increasingly, if inadvertently, oppressive…
— Newt Gingrich
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We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.
— Zoe Lofgren
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Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders of the Revolutionary…
— Joe Conason
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Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government.
— Sam Farr
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The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles in our system of government
— Richard M. Nixon
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Merging the ability to conduct surveillance that reveals every aspect of a person's life with the ability to conjure up the legal authority to execute…
— Ron Wyden
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Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and…
— Simon Bolivar
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Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have…
— Henry Knox
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The question is: What can we, as citizens, do to reform our tax system? As you know, under our three-branch system of government, the tax…
— Dave Barry
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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…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Impeachment is the direct constitutional means for removing a President, Vice President or other civil officers of the United States who has acted or threatened…
— Ramsey Clark
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Our system of government is one of checks and balances. It requires compromise.. compromise between the Executive and the Parliament, compromise between one House and…
— Peter Costello
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I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles…
— Andrew Jackson
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Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive
— John F. Kennedy
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In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by…
— William Kristol
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...open-market democratic capitalism isn't the best system of government in the world, it just works the best.
— John Ringo
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The genius of our founders is that they designed a system of government that can be changed. And we should take heart, because we’ve changed…
— Barack Obama
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Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have…
— Ronald Reagan
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The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that it must produce…
— James Madison
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