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A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.

A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness.

A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment.

A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.

A government may only govern so long as the people, through their representatives, vote it the money to carry on.

A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.

A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing army, an enslaved press and a disarmed populace.

A government that says what it means, and means what it says.

A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.

A government cannot be expected to allow independence to its central bank unless that bank is also accountable to it and to the wider public. That is, the central bank must be able to be judged on whether or not it has achieved its agreed objective.

A government, founded on impartial liberty, where all have a voice and a vote, irrespective of color or of sex--what is there to hinder such a government from standing firm.

A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.

A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself. If it had, it would be arbitrary. It might make itself what it pleased; and wherever such a right is set up, it shows there is no constitution.

A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly and logically would disarm them. And so it has been in this century. Check out the history of Germany, the Soviet Union, Cuba, China and Cambodia.

A government that seizes control of the economy for the good of the people ends up seizing control of the people for the good of the economy

A government which can protect and defend its citizens from wrong and outrage and does not is vicious. A government which would do it and cannot is weak; and where human life is insecure through either weakness or viciousness in the administration of law, there must be a lack of justice and where this is wanting, nothing can make up the deficiency.

A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement.

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.

A government by secrecy benefits no one. It injures the people it seeks to serve; it damages its own integrity and operation. It breeds distrust, dampens the fervor of its citizens and mocks their loyalty.

A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life.

A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.

A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, implied in this, a compulsory territorial monopolist of taxation. That is, a government is the ultimate arbiter, for the inhabitants of a given territory, regarding what is just and what is not, and it can determine unilaterally, i.e., without requiring the consent of those seeking justice or arbitration, the price that justice-seekers must pay to the government for providing this service.

A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.

A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in person, which would be impracticable beyond the limits of a city or small township, but by representatives chosen by himself and responsible to him at short periods.

A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.

A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible, free from every other control but a regard to the public good and to the sense of the people.

A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward.

A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain.

A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.

A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.

A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion.

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.

A government run by billionaires for billionaires is an affront to freedom and morality and humanity.

A government shutdown, it isn't the end of the world. It`s a bad thing. The government stops working for a few days. We cover it a lot. Polls turn against who ever made it stop working.

A government which requires of the people the contribution of the bulk of their substance and rewards cannot be classed as a free government.

A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.

A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that god prefers some

A government, forever changing and changeable, is, indeed, in a state bordering upon anarchy and confusion.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.