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Increasing the sale of liquor may benefit the government in terms of revenue. But liquor is a social evil, and its biggest victims are women and their children.

To take over a government through military force would create instability, and it would not last for long. I do not want to leave a legacy of having taken over the government through military means. It has never occurred to me to have a coup d'etat.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

I didn't even have a birth certificate until I was 9 years old, which meant that, according to the state of Idaho and the federal government, I just didn't exist.

I had been raised in the mountains of Idaho by a father who distrusted many of the institutions that people take for granted - public education, doctors and hospitals, and the government.

Enough of these little kitty cats we keep sending to Washington. David Dewhurst will compromise every day in the U.S. Senate... It's what he's done every day in state government.

How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.

It's no coincidence that the cities with the highest rates of violence also have the highest rates of unemployment. There are not many opportunities. We have to address that, starting from the government down and the grassroots up.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

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.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.

Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.

The 20th century shows that the form of government that we take for granted, a constitutional democratic republic with checks and balances and a rule of law - that form of government is usually temporary.

Financial crises require governments.

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

This Metaverse is going to be far more pervasive and powerful than anything else. If one central company gains control of this, they will become more powerful than any government and be a god on Earth.

I was at MSNBC; I was constantly saying to them during Bridgegate, 'You've convicted Governor Christie without one iota of fact attaching him to the decision to stall the traffic on the bridge. Why don't we wait until the federal government or the state government... completes its investigation.'

I was in Iraq in the worst period, 2006, but from 2006 to 2008, and especially through 2011, the American military and the government of Iraq made huge strides in making that country a source of stability with a relatively representative government that was seeking pluralistic engagement from all the factions within the government.

I am the Federal Government.

The consequences of turning a blind eye to government corruption go far beyond simply letting some corrupt politicians and bureaucrats walk free.

Let's make it simple: Government control means uniformity, regulation, fees, inspection, and yes, compliance.

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

The government has become a mechanism for distributing largess, and your census form is your ticket.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

Racism is not first and foremost a skin problem. It is a sin problem. See, when you believe that racism is a skin problem, you can take three hundred years of slavery, court decisions, marches, and the federal government involvement and still not get it fixed right.

When it shall be known that, at the time which I was accused of wishing to sunder this island from France - my benefactress - I repeated the oath of fidelity to her, I take pleasure in believing that the government I own, and my fellow-citizens, will render me the justice I merit, and that the enemies of my brethren will be reduced to silence.

Sadly, the system in this country is rigged in favor of wealthy elites who have purchased tremendous influence in our government.

When you are in local government, you are on the ground, and you are looking into the eyes and hearts of the people you are there to serve. It teaches you to listen; it teaches you to be expansive in the people with whom you talk to, and I think that that engagement gives you political judgment.

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?