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For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.- Paul Martin
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Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.
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Fortune and caprice govern the world.
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Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal…We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.’ Abraham Lincoln
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Franklin Roosevelt stands like a sharply formed rock in a shapeless sea. spoken on Book TV by a Jackson biographer.
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Freedom of expression – in particular, freedom of the press – guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy. Corazon Aquino quotes
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Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary will of another man.
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Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
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Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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Good government is no substitute for self-government.
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Good government is the outcome of private virtue
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved — commitment to a scenario.
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Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. * * * Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.
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Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.
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Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough is big enough to take everything you have. . . . The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
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Government can be bigger than any of the players on the field as a referee, but it has no right to become one of the players.
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Government can easily exist without law, but law cannot exist without government.
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Government doesn’t work.
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Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.
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