Quotes 481 till 500 of 601.
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There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
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There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.
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There are very powerful and wealthy special interests who want to privatize or dismember virtually every function that government now performs, whether it is Social Security, Medicare, public education or the Postal Service.
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There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
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There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
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There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.
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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
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There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.
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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
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There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.
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There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.
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There's a big difference between the role of an academic and the role of someone in government. That's a cliche, but in academic life if you say things that are common sense and people nod their heads, it's not very useful. You're not adding anything.
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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
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These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.
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Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
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This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.
Public papers and addresses of Benjamin Harrison, twenty-third President of the United States, March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893 -
This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.
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This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.
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