Government Quotes - Page 35

• The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.

  John Lennon

  People, Political, Religion

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• The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure... It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies.

  Barack Obama

  Country, America, Fiscal Policy

  Barack Obama's speech Against Raising The Debt Ceiling on the floor of the US Senate, www.redstate.com. March 16, 2006.

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• A real possibility now exists for a Government that is not led by either Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil

  Gerry Adams

  Real, Possibility, Fine

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• If obedience is not rendered in the homes, we shall never have a whole city, country, principality, or kingdom well governed. For this order in the homes is the first rule; it is the source of all other rule and government.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Home, Order

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia Publishing House

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• Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Democracies Have, Voters, Aliens

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's address in Marietta, Ohio, July 8, 1938.

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• We need to surrender our attachments to government in every aspect of life. We need to give up our dependencies on the state, materially and spiritually. We should not look to the state to provide us financially or psychologically. Let us give up our longing for welfare, our love of war, and our desire to see the government control and shape our fellow citizens.

  Ron Paul

  Giving Up, War, Believe

  "Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom". Book by Ron Paul, www.usnews.com. April 2011.

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• Bitcoin is the beginning of something great: a currency without a government, something necessary and imperative.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Bitcoin, Currency, Imperatives

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 20, 2013.

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• And now we're suffering the logical culmination of all this: the largest group of government-hati ng, racist, homophobic, misogynistic know-nothing, climate-change denying, evolution-denyi ng, science-denying , anti-immigrant House Republicans in history, bent on taking America back to the 19th century.

  Robert Reich

  America, House, Suffering

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• There is no right government except good government.

  George Santayana

  George Santayana (1950). “Atoms of Thought: An Anthology of Thoughts”

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• WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Change, Justice, Want

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.232, 谷月社

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• To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Worthy, Labor, Secure

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.338, Modern Library

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• Our troops are committed to bringing security to Iraq while its government matures. American forces will continue to accomplish their mission with caution, precision and honor with the thanks of a grateful nation.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Grateful, Iraq, Honor

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• In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.

  Nathan Deal

  Years, White, People

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• Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

  Ernest Istook

  Religious, Creating, Heritage

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• Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement.

  Norman Lamm

  Religious, Israel, Doe

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• They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine.

  Hutton Gibson

  World Government, World Religions, Catholic

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• Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature, so that they would wonder and be astonished at seeing not great but unusual things, who are unmoved by things daily seen. For the government of the world is a greater miracle than feeding five thousand men from five loaves; yet at the former no one wonders, the latter astonishes all men: not as a greater wonder, but as a rarer.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Men, Unusual Things

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• If the government were obliged to come to the people for money instead of vice-versa, the people would keep government under control and operate their economy satisfactorily with prosperity and peace resulting. The peoples of the nations do not make war. For them peace is the natural and permanent order. Wars are planned and perpetrated by politicians and their diplomats; and the money power of government is the means by which the people are maneuvered into wars.

  E.C. Riegel

  Peace, War, Mean

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• Money is an instrumentality of the profit motive and must be issued and backed only by private enterprisers. Economic and political perversities are inescapable while government is admitted to money power. Since all national governments have, up to the present, been money issuing powers we may justly attribute all the economic and political ills of mankind to this single error.

  E.C. Riegel

  Errors, Political, Money Power

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• When government is invested with money power it rises above the citizen and under the profession of protecting him may actually constitute the greatest threat to his well-being and safety. The power which control of the money system gives to government to interfere in and direct and even take the life of the individual should not exist on this earth. No man or group of men is warranted in holding this terrible power over fellow men.

  E.C. Riegel

  Men, Safety, Giving

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• Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.

  E.C. Riegel

  Mean, Money Power, Citizens

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• As long as we cling to the superstition that we must look to government for money supply, instead of requiring it to look to us, just so long must we remain the subjects of government and it is vain to follow this or that policy or party or ism in the hope of salvation. We can control government and our own destiny only through our money power and until we exert that power it is useless for us to debate the pros and cons of political programs.

  E.C. Riegel

  Party, Destiny, Long

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• Money can be issued only in the act of buying, and can be backed only in the act of selling. Any buyer who is also a seller is qualified to be a money issuer. Government, because it is not and should not be a seller, is not qualified to be a money issuer.

  E.C. Riegel

  Buying, Making Money, Selling

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• There is mounting concern worldwide over the consumption of alcohol. The U.S. government estimates that 10.6 million adults are alcoholics and that one family in four is troubled by alcohol. It is a factor in half of all the nation's traffic deaths.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Alcohol, Adults, Half

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• Citizens ... should be practitioners of civic virtue in their conduct toward government. They should be ever willing to fulfill the duties of citizenship. This includes compulsory duties like military service and the numerous voluntary actions they must take if they are to preserve the principle of limited government through citizen self-reliance.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Military, America, Self

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