"Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people."
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"The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation."
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"Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches."
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"The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people."
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"We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws."
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"The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government."
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"The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U. S. government, i.e. imperialism."
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"I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?"
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"The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people."
1
"The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people."
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"Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government."
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"It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right."
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"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."
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"Government is not the generator of economic growth working people are."
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"A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none."
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"The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force."
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"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."
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"Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry."
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"The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion."
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"Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States."
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