“Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.”
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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“All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.”
— William Henry Harrison
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“Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.”
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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“When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.”
— Ron Paul
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“I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.”
— Chief Joseph
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“When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.”
— Adam Weishaupt
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“It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.”
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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“It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.”
— George Washington
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“No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.”
— Jesse Jackson
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“I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.”
— Stephen Harper
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“Open the way before the new government to prove that it is for serving the people.”
— Muqtada al Sadr
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