Quotes with government

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  • Will Rogers Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Abraham Lincoln 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.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Benjamin Harrison 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
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Bertrand Russell 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.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Rita Mae Brown 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.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Grover Cleveland Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.
    Grover Cleveland
    American politician and lawyer (1837 - 1908)
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  • Carol Loomis Throughout his remarkable business and government career, Robert Rubin, now 65, has both worked exhaustively at reaching well-founded conclusions and rejected the idea that anything - and he means anything - can be a 'provable certainty.'
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Thomas Paine To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Beth Simone Noveck To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.
    Beth Simone Noveck
    American professor (1971 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Herbert Hoover True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Gerald R. Ford Truth is the glue that holds government together.
    Gerald R. Ford
    American politician and 38th President of the United States (1913 - 2006)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Walter Bagehot Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Alvin Adams Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.
    Alvin Adams
    American businessman (1804 - 1877)
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  • Bob Woodward Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Bruce Jackson Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Amy Goodman War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.
    Amy Goodman
    American broadcast journalist, columnist and author (1957 - )
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