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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Memorial Day Time Patriotism Country

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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Democracy Power Never Forget Forget

Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent - a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice - that struggle continues.

Election Environmental People Justice

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

Religion Responsibility Discrimination

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

Good Passion Integrity Governance

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

Good Politics Today People

Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.

Attitude Democracy Respect Experience

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Abraham Lincoln

Education School Generation Will

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.

Trust People Job Lost

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Words Language Help English Language

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Thomas Jefferson

Life Good Happiness Care

When you were growing up, your mom and dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street or not to get into a car with a stranger. It's the same with the Internet. We have a big responsibility and a huge role in bringing all the stakeholders to the table - users, parents, educators, law enforcement, government organisations.

Car Mom Parents Look

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

Peace People Feel Savage

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.

Milton Friedman

Depression Great Great Depression

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Graduation Power Hands Will

It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.

Voting Me Yourself People

Optimism is the ultimate definition of a leader. A leader has to look optimistically at what is ahead while not ignoring the challenges that must be overcome. Those challenges are in government, politics, world leadership, and even in community life.

Life Leadership Leader Politics

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Baby Feel Country Congress

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Winston Churchill

Best Democracy Conversation Argument

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

You Enough Want Everything

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Moving View Short Economy

Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with international cooperation and engagement, secularism and science, gun control, individual freedom in culture and sexuality, and a greater role for the government in protecting the environment and ensuring economic equality.

Vote Freedom Science Culture

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Thomas Jefferson

People Rest Just Against

I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Sea Religion People Wish

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Best Evil Worst Necessary

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Abraham Lincoln

People Earth For The People Shall

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