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• Seen from a lower point of view, the Constitution, with all its faults, is very good; the law and the courts are very respectable;even this State and this American government are, in many respects, very admirable, and rare things, to be thankful for, such as a great many have described them; but seen from a point of view a little higher, they are what I have described them; seen from a higher still, and the highest, who shall say what they are, or that they are worth looking at or thinking of at all?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Law, Government

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.108, Bantam Classics

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• I don't believe less in American government because of a bad politician. I don't believe less in the Catholic Church because of a criminal priest but I wish we were doing more - and had done more in the past especially - to do something about these things. It doesn't harm my faith but it gets me just mad that these things have existed.

  Lino Rulli

  Believe, Past, Government

  "A talk with Lino Rulli, 'Catholic Guy' & 'Sinner'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• The Iranian leaders describe the American government exactly the way American analysts describe the Iranian one, as an opaque, factionalized system with competing power centers, over which the president exercises very limited authority.

  Ali Khamenei

  Exercise, Government, Leader

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• The American government has been harvesting the Middle Eastern grapes of wrath for a generation and not making a secret of it, either. As lousy as the mass media may be, there was enough news about what was transpiring, year after year, to get the gist of what was happening... No American can truthfully say that they could not find out what was going on.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Wrath, Government, Media

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• All peoples are fed up with the American government.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Government, Feds, Fed Up

  "We Are Neither Obstinate nor Gullible". Interview to "Spiegel", www.voltairenet.org. April 12, 2009.

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• The American government must finally learn lessons from the past.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Past, Government, Lessons

  "We Are Neither Obstinate nor Gullible". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. April 10, 2009.

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• As long as Fidel Castro is alive we [the American Government] will not normalize relations with Cuba. We don't want it, and he certainly doesn't.

  Mark Falcoff

  Government, Long, Cuba

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• This is for one simple reason: each Islamic mosque is dedicated to the overthrow of the American government.

  Bryan Fischer

  Islamic, Simple, Government

  "No More Mosques, Period" by Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 2010.

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• The American government is making nuclear weapons like there's no tomorrow.

  Emo Philips

  Government, Nuclear, Weapons

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• There is in the American Government...a want of unity.... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have one purpose or obey one will so that instead of making steady way the vessel may pursue a devious or zigzag course, and sometimes merely turn round and round in the water.

  James Bryce

  Government, Water, Unity

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• Those men who laid the foundation of this American government and signed he Declaration of Independence were the best spirits the God of heaven could find on the face of the earth. They were choice spirits . . . noble spirits before God.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Men, Choices, Heaven

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• The people of North America, at this time, expect a revisal and reformation of the American Governments, and are better disposed to submit to it than ever they were, or perhaps ever will be again.97. This is therefore the proper and critical time to reform the American governments upon a general, constitutional, firm, and durable plan; and if it is not done now, it will probably every day grow more difficult, till at last it becomes impracticable.

  Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet

  Government, America, People

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• The shame of the U.S.S. Liberty incident is that our sailors were treated as though they were enemies, rather than the patriots and heroes that they were. There is no other incident--beyond Israeli attack on the U.S.S. Liberty--that shows the power of the Israeli Lobby by being able to silence successive American governments. Allowing the lies told by the Israelis and their minions in the U.S. is disheartening to all of us who are proud of our servicemen.

  James Abourezk

  Lying, Hero, Government

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• Some segments within the American government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy, and its grips on the Middle East, in order to save the Zionist regime The majority of the American people as well as most nations and politicians around the world agree with this view.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Government, Views, Order

  "U.N. delegates walk out during Iranian president's speech". www.cnn.com. September 23, 2010.

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• It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.

  William H. Seward

  War, Government, Would Be

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• Among the elementary measures the American government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are the following: the schools, colleges, and universities will be coordinated and grouped under a National Department of Education and its state and local branches. The studies will be revolutionized, being cleansed of religious, patriotic, and other features of bourgeois ideology.

  William Z. Foster

  Religious, School, Patriotic

  William Z. Foster (1961). “Toward Soviet America: The book the communists tried to destroy!”

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• The decision was strictly based on my interest of living and working in Singapore. I am obligated and I will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the American government. I already paid and I will keep paying whatever taxes I owe based on my time as a U.S. citizen.

  Eduardo Saverin

  Government, Decision, Dollars

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• The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Real, Government, World

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• Homosexuals now pervade and control American government at every level and branch. Thus, only those churches that support and promote the militant homosexual agenda enjoy religious freedom. Any church in America that dares to preach what the Bible says about soul-damning, nation-destroying moral filth of the vile homosexual beasts among us, loses all Constitutional guarantees of religious freedom and speech rights.

  Fred Phelps

  Religious, America, Rights

  Letter to Boris Yeltsin, 1997.

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• Intelligent beings from other planets regularly visit our world in an effort to enter into contact with us. NASA and the American government know this and possess a great deal of evidence. Nevertheless, they remain silent in order not to alarm people. I am dedicated to forcing the authorities to end their silence.

  Gordon Cooper

  Intelligent, Order, Our World

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• I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

  Ginger Baker

  Thinking, Government, World

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• The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism.

  Amy Waldman

  Islamic, Government, September 11

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• Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not.

  Michael Lind

  Party, Government, Law

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• Stop calling me communist. Stop calling the rest of us communists. You`ve got to stand up for what you believe should be the American government`s spirit, not what you`re just attacking people`s credibility.

  Chris Matthews

  Believe, Government, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If we become an accomplice to criminal activities by the American government, then we are liable too.

  Clive Stafford Smith

  Government, Criminals, Liable

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