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“The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.”

Knows Made Government America Father Opportunity Given Like You Citizens Ordinary Extraordinary Like Me Made It Extraordinary Things Ordinary Things Ordinary Citizens

Author:Mia Love

“So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free-enterprise system.”

“We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he that pays the price.”

Government Form Fighting Pay Ordinary Sick Tired Unity Corruption Pay The Price Afghan National Unity

Author:Ashraf Ghani

“The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.”

Government Ordinary Royalty Monarchy Commonwealth

Book:Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt

Source: Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt

“People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.”

People Knows Men Hands Government Care Lying Dark Party Ordinary Folks Capitalist

Author:Cesare Pavese

“The majority falls prey to the delusion–popular in some circles–that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth–born of experience–is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people.”

“The average ordinary person, in the worst slums of America, someone who might even hate the law and disagree with the government, they would do something about that [abandoned child]. But in Afghanistan, people hardly have the means to take care of themselves, let alone a random child on the street.”

People Mean Children Persons Government Might Care America Law Hate Streets Worst Ordinary Average Take Care Disagree Afghanistan Abandoned Slums Ordinary Person

Author:Immortal Technique

“The program grew out of a desire to address a gap identified after 9/11 ... The program does not involve the NSA examining the phone records of ordinary Americans. Rather, it consolidates these records into a database that the government can query if it has a specific lead - phone records that the companies already retain for business purposes.”

Ifs Doe Government Desire Purpose Company Records Grew Ordinary Program Phones Addresses Gaps Nsa Examining Databases Queries

Author:Barack Obama

“Our intelligence agencies will continue to gather information about the intentions of governments - as opposed to ordinary citizens - around the world, in the same way that the intelligence services of every other nation does. We will not apologize simply because our services may be more effective.”

World Way May Doe Government Nations Information Citizens Ordinary Intention Around The World Agency Apologizing Nsa Intelligence Agencies Ordinary Citizens Intelligence Services

Author:Barack Obama

“But the sages of Greece and Rome turned aside from the awful spectacle, and, pursuing the ordinary occupations of life and study, appeared unconscious of any alterations in the moral of physical government of the world.”

World Government Moral History Study Ordinary Awful Unconscious Occupation Rome Sage Greece Roman Empire Alterations Greece And Rome

Book:The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812

Source: The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812