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“The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.”

Giving Government Opportunity Responsibility Citizens Advantage

Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.”

Believe Long Facts Government Running Moving Law Certain Decision Party Democracy Taken Advantage India Committed Chinese Long Runs Rule Of Law

Author:Manmohan Singh

“When consumers do not take full advantage of efficiency gains, it is because they are weighing other factors that influence their decision making. When the federal government arbitrarily places one of those factors over others, it makes consumers worse off.”

Government Decision Influence Gains Advantage Factors Consumers Decision Making Efficiency Federal Government Weighing

Author:Gina McCarthy

“Nobody cares that Mitt Romney is rich. It’s Romney’s inability to understand the institutional advantage that he gains from the government’s tax code largesse that’s a little offensive to people. Especially considering Romney’s view on anyone else who looks to the government for things like, I don’t know, food and medicine.”

People Knows Looks Littles Government Care Views Rich Taxes Gains Advantage Medicine Code Considering Offensive Inability Romney Nobody Cares Largesse

Author:Jon Stewart

“In a free society with a government based on reason, it is inevitable that there will be no uniform opinion about important issues. Those accustomed to suppression and control by governmental authority see this as leading only to chaos. But a government of the people requires difference of opinion in order to discover truth and to take advantage of the opportunity that only understanding brings.”

“Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?”

Thinking Men Government Success Behinds Moral Exercise Office Ethics Men And Women Advantage Fund Officers Secretary Grown Man Moral Leadership

Author:Meg Greenfield

“The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.”

Men States Government Wealth Existence Special He Man Advantage Economics Mere Obligation Inequality Peculiar

Book:In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

“Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.”

Government Politics Power Promise Advantage

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.”

Government Majors Advantage Argument Function Presses Free Press

Author:Walter Cronkite

“It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition, to the grave. As it is to the advantage of society that the whole of its faculties should be employed, the construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity which never fails to appear in revolutions.”

Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

“Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses.”

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Book:Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government

Source: Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government

“Under fascism, citizens retain the responsibilities of owning property, without freedom to act and without any of the advantages of ownership. Under socialism, government officials acquire all the advantages of ownership, without any of the responsibilities, since they do not hold title to the property, but merely the right to use it -- at least until the next purge. In either case, the government officials hold the economic, political and legal power of life or death over the citizens.”

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Author:Ayn Rand

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

People Whole Government Share Advantage Protection

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“An established government has an infinite advantage, by that very circumstance of its being established--the bulk of mankind being governed by authority, not reason, and never attributing authority to anything that has not the recommendation of antiquity.”

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Book:Hume: Political Essays

Source: Hume: Political Essays