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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain
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Memorial Day
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
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The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.
Margaret Thatcher
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Money
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Problem
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Run
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken
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Art
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O'Rourke
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It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
Alexander Hamilton
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Federal Government
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln
Education
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School
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Generation
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Will
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
Ronald Reagan
People
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Run
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Duty
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First
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Lives
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
James Madison
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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.
Bernie Sanders
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Environmental
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People
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein
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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.
Barack Obama
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People
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Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.
Ron Paul
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill
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The happiness of society is the end of government.
John Adams
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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
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Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.
Pratibha Patil
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Got
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
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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.
Linda McMahon
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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
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Great Depression
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
Lao Tzu
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Small
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Fish
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Too Much
We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment camps here in the United States. The term 'Japanese internment camp' is both grammatically and factually incorrect.
George Takei
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Internment
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Here
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Japanese
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
John Locke
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Other
I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens.
Donald Trump
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Lost
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
Andrew Jackson
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