Quotes with self-government

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  • Calvin Coolidge Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • B. W. Powe Passion was animal flesh, raw desire gnawing and ripping at its early limitations. These passions were to be feared only if undirected by the conscience of the higher self. Mind was the key to the process of enlightenment. Hence reason was the first principle, light itself.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Emanations, Destinies, p. 4
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Patience means self-suffering.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Abigail Adams Patriotism in the female sex is the most disinterested of all virtues. Excluded from honors and from offices, we cannot attach ourselves to the State or Government from having held a place of eminence.... Yet all history and every age exhibit instances of patriotic virtue in the female sex; which considering our situation equals the most heroic of yours.
    Letter to John Adams, 17 June 1782
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Mark Twain Patriotismis is loyalty to the nation all the time, loyalty to the government when it deserves it .
    The Czar's Soliloquy
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Aung San Suu Kyi Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Burmese politician (1945 - )
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  • Carl Paladino People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
    Carl Paladino
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Assata Shakur People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they put me through. I miss African American culture, our speech, dance and cooking.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer People can also change the timing of when they earn and receive their income in response to government policies.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response to changes in government policies.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Robert Redford People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.
    Robert Redford
    American actor (born 1936) (1936 - )
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  • Carol Moseley Braun People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Thomas Szasz People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Oscar Wilde People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ben Carson People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Carl Paladino People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.
    Carl Paladino
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Bob McDonnell People want results. I call it 'results oriented conservatism,' R.O.C. because that's what people want out of government.
    Bob McDonnell
    American politician and lawyer (1954 - )
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  • James Baldwin People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
    Doom and glory of knowing who you are
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • W. M. Thackeray People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Cal Thomas People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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