Systems Of Government Quotes - Page 3

• President Obama's executive actions give work permits and federal entitlement benefits to people illegally in America - in direct violation of the laws passed by Congress. This undermines the entire constitutional system of government.

  Donald Trump

  Government, Law, America

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Peaceful secession and nullification are the only means of returning to a system of government that respects rather than destroys individual liberty.

  Thomas DiLorenzo

  Mean, Government, Peaceful

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• I will proudly promote our system of government and our way of life as the best in the world, just like we did in our campaign against communism during the Cold War.

  Donald Trump

  War, Government, Way

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We've gotta cut this country down to size and people here need to find out what it's like what we've done to people around the world, and that's not who we are. And [Donald] Trump is coming along saying those days are over; we are the solution, we are going, our system of government, we are gonna promote it, we are gonna promote our way of life around the world as the best in the world.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Cutting, Government

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There's so much impetus for change, there's so much desire to not have this oil economy continue, but it continues nonetheless. And people often assume that's because technology is not good enough, or there's no money being invested, or it's just not ready yet. It's none of that. It's actually a system of government and corporate behavior that work in collusion and lock step with one another to deflect any momentum toward true alternative energies.

  Josh Tickell

  Technology, Oil, Government

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• I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, India, Satanic

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• The great advantage of our system of government over all others, is, that we have a written constitution, defining its limits, and prescribing its authorities; and that, however, for a time, faction may convulse the nation, and passion and party prejudice sway its functionaries, the season of reflection will recur, when calmly retracing their deeds, all aberrations from fundamental principle will be corrected.

  Henry Clay

  Party, Passion, Reflection

  Henry Clay (2015). “The Papers of Henry Clay: The Rising Statesman, 1797-1814”, p.537, University Press of Kentucky

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• The word Amendment itself is an encouraging thing, isn't it? Because an amendment, it tells of a system of government that allows for the improvement of itself. Just move forward a little bit, one day at a time.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Moving, Government, One Day At A Time

  "Steven Spielberd & Daniel Day-Lewis interview, Lincoln". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. August 30, 2018.

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• Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government.

  John Allen Fraser

  Philosophy, Government, Political

  John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière

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• Our whole system of government is based on "We the people," but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, People, Citizens

  Ronald Reagan (2011). “An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• Popular congresses are the only means to achieve popular democracy. Any system of government other than popular congresses is undemocratic.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Mean, Government, Democracy

  "The Green Book". Book by Muammar al-Gaddafi, 1975.

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• In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.

  William Kristol

  Leadership, War, Government

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• May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an act as this ought not to produce great and universal alarm? Whether a rigid execution of such an act, in time past, would not have repressed that information and communication among the people which is indispensable to the just exercise of their electoral rights? And whether such an act, if made perpetual, and enforced with rigor, would not, in time to come, either destroy our free system of government, or prepare a convulsion that might prove equally fatal to it?

  James Madison

  Country, Communication, Exercise

  James Madison (1836). “The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution”, p.574

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• A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.

  Jean Chretien

  Government, Leader, Unions

  "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chrétien, 1985.

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• Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own tenuity.

  Simon Bolivar

  Government, Balance, Decay

  Simón Bolívar (1951). “Selected Writings: 1810-1822”

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• It has been the struggle between privileged men who have managed to get hold of the levers of power and the people in general withtheir vague and changing aspirations for equality, for justice, for some kind of gentler brotherhood and peace, which has kept that balance of forces we call our system of government in equilibrium.

  John Dos Passos

  Struggle, Power, Men

  John Dos Passos (2010). “The Ground We Stand on: The History of a Political Creed”, p.21, Transaction Publishers

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• Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. [...] The art of government is the exclusive possession of quacks and frauds. It has been so since the earliest days, and it will probably remain so until the end of time.

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Government, Effort

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.207, Knopf

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• What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Military, Independent, Media

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• Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

  John F. Kennedy

  Government, Function, Wells

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• Our system of government is one of checks and balances. It requires compromise.. compromise between the Executive and the Parliament, compromise between one House and another, compromise between the States and the Commonwealth and compromise between groups of persons with legitimate interests and other groups with other legitimate interests. There is room for compromise.. indeed demand for it.. in a system of checks and balances.

  Peter Costello

  Government, House, Balance

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• Impeachment is the direct constitutional means for removing a President, Vice President or other civil officers of the United States who has acted or threatened acts that are serious offenses against the Constitution, its system of government, or the rule of law, or that are conventional crimes of such a serious nature that they would injure the Presidency if there was no removal.

  Ramsey Clark

  Mean, Government, Law

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• A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, Long, Rich

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.126, A&C Black

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• Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government. Instead, therefore, of exclaiming against the ambition of kings, the exclamation should be directed against the principle of such governments; and instead of seeking to reform the individual, the wisdom of a nation should apply itself to reform the system.

  Thomas Paine

  Kings, Ambition, Men

  Thomas Paine (1856). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.76

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• An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression. The avant-garde man is the opponent of an existing system.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Men, Expression, Cities

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• Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits.... Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

  Daniel Webster

  Christian, Religious, Men

  Daniel Webster (1853). “The Great Orations and Senatorial Speech of Daniel Webster”, p.49

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