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• Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.

  Thomas Paine

  Hands, Taxation, Greedy

  "Rights of Man, Part 2". Book by Thomas Paine. "Introduction", en.wikisource.org. 1792.

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• `Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government.

  George Washington

  Spring, Morality, Virtue

  Nancy Spannaus, Christopher White, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas More, Henry VIII (2015). “The Political Economy of the American Revolution”, p.286, Executive Intelligence Review

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• A good government implies two things: first, fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained.

  James Madison

  Mean, Two, People

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.66, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, Mean, Men

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.

  Nicolas Walter

  Trust, Father Son, Men

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• If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National.

  George Will

  Reading, Organization, Today

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• Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.

  Beverley Baxter

  Towns, Married, Mayors

  In Sir Henry Channon Chips: the Diaries (1967) 12 June 1940

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• My country's history, Mr. President, tells us that it is possible to fashion unity while cherishing diversity, that common action is possible despite the variety of races, interests, and beliefs we see here in this chamber. Progress and peace and justice are attainable. So we say to all peoples and governments: Let us fashion together a new world order.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Fashion, World Government

  Address for the UN General Assembly, October 1975.

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• In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

  Noah Webster

  Christian, Children, Views

  Noah Webster (1843). “A Collection of Papers on Political, Literary, and Moral Subjects”, p.291

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• The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Class, Failing, Rise Above

  Robert L. Heilbroner (1986). “The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers”

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• The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Men, Law Courts, Rights

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928) See Brandeis 1

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• The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money in the New York money market....The One World Government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank.

  Curtis Bean Dall

  New York, Order, Nwo

  "Franklin Roosevelt, My Exploited Father-in-Law" by Curtis Dall, 1968.

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• The Council on Foreign Relations is "the establishment." Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest levels of government to apply pressure from above, but it also announces and uses individuals and groups to bring pressure from below, to justify the high level decisions for converting the U.S. from a sovereign Constitutional Republic into a servile member state of a one-world dictatorship.

  John Rarick

  Order, Influence And Power, Nwo

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• The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which....pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.

  J. F. C. Fuller

  War, World Government, Hands

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• The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting with the Internet, and Governments are abusing that necessity in secret to extend their powers beyond what is necessary and appropriate.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, People, Secret

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• The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to.

  Edward Snowden

  People, Granted, Results

  "Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations". www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2013.

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• Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.

  Edward Snowden

  People, Intimidating, Revealing

  "NSA whistleblower whereabouts reportedly unknown as authorities consider charges", www.foxnews.com. June 11, 2013.

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• Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

  Adrian Cronauer

  Principles, Rehabilitation, Consent Of The Governed

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• I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Patriotic, Civil War

  Speech at Republican state convention nominating him to run for U.S. senator, Springfield, Ill., 16 June 1858

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• I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me.

  Edward Snowden

  Media, Political, Likes

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• Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.

  Winston Churchill

  House, Politics, Sake

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

  Winston Churchill

  Mother, Father, Politics

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

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• In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Politics, France

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

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• The Establishment decided Thatcher's ideas were safer with a strong Blair government than with a weak Major government. We are given all these personalities to choose between to disguise the fact that the policies are the same.

  Tony Benn

  Strong, Ideas, Personality

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• Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Believe, Mean, Secret Places

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