Government Quotes - Page 13

• The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Strength, Peace, Strong

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

  Mark Twain

  Differences, Entrepreneur, Patriotism

  Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.253, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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  The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

  Patrick Henry

  Fake People, Freedom, 4th Of July

  "The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: Volume 3". Book by Jonathan Elliot, 1836.

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• Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

  John Perry Barlow

  Technology, Asking, Politics

  "The Guardian view on internet privacy: it’s the psychology, stupid". www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2018.

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• As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

  James Madison

  Men, Rights, Liberty

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

  Paul Harvey

  Funny, Witty, Humor

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• He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.

  Winston Churchill

  Wish, Politics

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.

  James Madison

  People, Doubt, Taught

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

  Edmund Burke

  Want, Humans, Human Wisdom

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 88

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• It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world
  if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years.
  But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a
  world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite
  and world bankers is surely preferable to the national
  auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

  David Rockefeller

  Determination, Past, Light

  "The Powers That Be: America's Dirtiest Secrets". Book by William Caniano, 2007.

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• Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Education, School, Nurse

  Speech in the House of Commons, June 15, 1874.

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• Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

  William E. Gladstone

  Home, Principles, Firsts

  Speech, West Calder, Scotland, November 27, 1879.

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• I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life And Love, Liberty, Politics

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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• Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Trust, People, Safety

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.259, Cambridge University Press

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• Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Freedom, Independent, Men

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

  Larry Flynt

  Sheep, Rights, Majority Rule

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Freedom, History, Political

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.99, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.

  Robert Kennedy

  World Government, Order, Nwo

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• Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  4th Of July, Patriotic, America

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

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• Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

  Wendell Phillips

  Rights, Political, Enemy

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.341

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• Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Strong, Neutrality, Tranquillity

  Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.63, Rowman & Littlefield

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• To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Politics, Easy, Difficult

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• The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Administration, Guardianship, Ought

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cyrus R. Edmonds (1863). “Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers”, p.44

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• What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

  Tom Clancy

  Libertarian Party, People, Liberty

  "Kudlow & Cramer" Interview, September 02, 2003.

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• What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

  Barack Obama

  Needs, Asking, Bigs

  University of Michigan Commencement Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2010.

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