Quotes 461 till 480 of 585.
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The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
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The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
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The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
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The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
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The whole history of Israel, its ritual and its government, is explicable only as it is typical of the spiritual Israel, of the sacrifice on Calvary, of the precious blood which alone can wash away sin.
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The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
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The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
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There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.
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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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