Government
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth.
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists — to protect them and to promote their common welfare — all else is lost.
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand — demand — demand change.
You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.
Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.
Let those men who still have these misguided ideas, let those men who still have these hallucinations, realize that by anarchism, by dastardly crimes, they cannot bring about good government; let them realize that these methods have not succeeded in any country of the world and are not likely to succeed in India.
The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the State.
We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
A government of laws, and not of men.
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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