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The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military. – William Orville Douglas	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it. – George Farquhar	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. – Gerald R. Ford	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them. – William Fullbright	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed tot he purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. – William Henry Harrison	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. – Herbert Clark Hoover	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. – Justice Anthony Kennedy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time. – Nikita Khrushchev	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want-and their kids pay for it. – Richard Lamm	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You know why there's a Second Amendment In case the government fails to follow the first one. – Rush Limbaugh	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. – James Madison	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words. – David McIntosh	added by anonymous 14 years ago
America Where a man can say what he thinks, if he isn't afraid of his wife, his boss, his customer, his neighbors, or the government. – Joe Moore	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good. – Daniel Patrick Moynihan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. – Daniel Patrick Moynihan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. – Tom Robbins	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that. – George Pratt Shultz	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The real object of those who resorted to Secession, as well as those who sustained it, was not to overthrow the Government of the United States but to perpetuate the principles upon which it was founded. The object in quitting the Union was not to destroy, but to save the principles of the Constitution. – Alexander Hamilton Stephens	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It was no Insurrection or Rebellion, or even Civil War in any proper sense of these terms... The war... was a war between States regularly organized into two separate Federal Republics... In the beginning, and throughout the contest, the object of the 'Confederates' was to maintain the separate Sovereignty of each State, and the right of self-government, which that necessarily carries with it. The object of the 'Federals,' on the contrary, was to maintain a Centralized Sovereignty over all the States on both sides. This was the fundamental principle involved in the Conflict, which must be kept continually in mind. – Alexander Hamilton Stephens	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Government cannot make us equal it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. – Clarence Thomas	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people. – Charles W. Tobey	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat. – Pierre Elliott Trudeau	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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