"The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom, that was that. We asked what would happen if the majority wanted something else, if the majority wanted to see Irish unity."
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"In a country where Americans sense, quite genuinely, that their freedoms have been taken away by the government - as in the U. S. Patriot Act, as in NSA surveillance - people feel powerless."
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"It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth."
2
"The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied."
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"No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal."
2
"Let the people think they govern and they will be governed."
2
"Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders."
3
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."
2
"The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people."
1
"The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials."
1
"The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people."
0
"I think the people should have a right to boycott whoever they want to boycott without the government making them into criminals and try to protect corporations from people. They should protect people from corporations."
3
"Some people say that watching pay freezes in the government is like watching water freeze. It expands."
2
"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories."
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"Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it."
2
"In the sixties, for anybody to suggest that the government didn't have our best interests at heart and policemen sometimes killed people would have automatically made them a radical firebrand lefty. That's not the case anymore."
2
"The trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn by lot from the mass of the people, for the very purpose of having all classes of minds and feelings, that prevail among the people at large, represented in the jury."
0
"A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient."
2
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
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"We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people."
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