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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Government

"Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every one has a just influence, as is the case in England in a slight degree, and in our states, in a great one. 3. Under governments of force: as is the case in all other monarchies and in most of the other republics. To have an idea of the curse of existence under these last, they must be seen. It is a government of wolves over sheep."

Ideas Government Sheep
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Government

"Where everyman is participator in the government of affairs, not merely at an election one day in the year but everyday, he will let the heart be torn out of his body sooner than his power be wrested from him by a Caesar or a Bonaparte."

Years Heart Government
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Government

"Religion, morality, and knowledge are necessary for good government... Therefore schools and the means of educating the people should always be encouraged."

Mean School Government
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Government

"The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper."

Government Rights Paper
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Government

"A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure of their oppressions. But should even this be counteracted by violence on the right of expatriation, the other branch of our example then presents itself for imitation: to rise on their rulers and do as we have done."

Government Blessing Example
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Government

"No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable."

Self Government Exercise
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Tim Ferriss Author, Entrepreneur, Podcaster
Government

"If you look at the purported dangers of salt or fat, there is no consensus of support in scientific literature. So I would ask first: 'Is it possible to have an informed government that actually follows the science?' From what I've seen, it's not likely."

Government Support Salt
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Tim Ryan Politician
Government

"While the political debate over abortion will continue for a very long time, the federal government can and should be doing more to support programs and services that provide women with better options."

Long Government Support
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Tim Ryan Politician
Government

"It is past time for the U.S. government to fully fulfill our moral obligation to those who have fought for freedom and democracy."

Government Past Democracy
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Tim Wu Legal Scholar
Government

"More than anyone else, Adolf Hitler completely understood the union between government propaganda and between - and advertising, that they were in some ways the same thing."

Way Government Unions
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Tim Wu Legal Scholar
Government

"In fact, the big steps forward for advertising, especially after World War I were when government just began employing the tools of advertising for its own purposes to get people to join the army and other things."

War Government Army
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Timothy Dwight IV Theologian
Government

"The great and good ends proposed by the Illuminati, as the ultimate objects of their union, are the overthrow of religion, government, and human society civil and domestic."

Government Ends Unions
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Tom Barrett Politician
Government

"I think one of the strengths of Wisconsin's economy is it's diversity - and in making sure that we're doing everything we can to have a state government that's responsive to that and being here and encouraging people to expand their businesses here."

People Thinking Government
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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
Government

"Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically the same. There's only a difference of degree. We both have the same basic form of government: economic totalitarianism. In other words, the settlement to all questions, the solutions to all issues are determined not by what will make the people most healthy and happy in their bodies and their minds but by economics. Dollars or rubles."

Government Differences Russia
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Tony Burke Politician
Government

"The claim that the Government made that there were 21 measures in it is wrong. We said we wanted to wait till we saw the bill because we didn't to trust that it would be as they described and it's turned out we were exactly right for saying that. The Government has been entirely deceptive with this. And if their first action is to lie to the Australian people about what was meant to be their centrepiece bill, that really tells you want the [Malcolm] Turnbull Government's going to be about."

People Lying Government
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Tony Burke Politician
Government

"With a close parliament, if the Government wants to get a good outcome for the nation, they can't play a game of lying to the public about what's in their own legislation. They can't do that."

Lying Government Games
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Tony Burke Politician
Government

"The Government in their own terms, for example, they banked the income for the backpackers' tax. But they had a process attached to the backpackers' tax of review that they wanted to go through. What the Government's saying now with this bill is any process, any detail, any reinvestment that Labor had as part of its package, we're meant to ignore all of that and it's only the cut part of it that we're meant to be committed to."

Government Cutting Example
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