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“The greatest source of America's generosity is not our government; it's the good heart of the American people.”

People Heart Government America Source Generosity Good Heart

Author:George W. Bush

“The fact of the matter is that hope comes from many sources. I think depending on the federal government to be some sort of a savior is false hope.”

Thinking Matter Facts Government Source Savior Federal Government False Hope

Author:Tim Scott

“To preserve, to improve, and to perpetuate the sources and to direct in their most effective channels the streams which contribute to the public weal is the purpose for which Government was instituted.”

Government Purpose Source Direct Preserves Streams

Author:John Quincy Adams

“We know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like - the anti-war government nig... America was a source for division around the world, that what we were doing was wrong.”

Knows World War Government America Source Around The World Barack Candidates Division Anti War

Author:Rick Santorum

“It's created a very real chilling effect among our sources. They've become nervous about talking with us. They don't want their phone numbers associated with us. And government employees who previously routinely talked to us, now won't.”

Want Real Government Numbers Talking Effects Source Phones Nervous Employee Chill Phone Numbers Government Employees

Author:Gary Pruitt

“Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural right.' It is a practical necessity of 'self-government by universal suffrage,' for if the citizens are not permitted to argue out the issues of government, how can they be what they must be in a democracy - the rulers as well as the ruled?”

“People hired by government know who is their benefactor. People who lose their jobs or fail to get them because of the government program do not know that that is the source of their problem. The good effects are visible. The bad effects are invisible. The good effects generate votes. The bad effects generate discontent, which is as likely to be directed at private business as at the government.”

People Knows Problem Government Jobs Loses Failing Effects Source Program Vote Invisible Visible Discontent Government Programs Benefactors

Author:Milton Friedman

“The source of the government's authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant or agent of the citizens; it means that the government as such has no rights except the rights delegated to it by the citizens for a specific purpose.”

Mean Government Purpose Rights Source Citizens Authority Agents Servant Rulers Consent Delegation Consent Of The Governed

Book:The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“Being the dependents of the general government, and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state officers, under whatever names they might pass and by whatever forms their duties might be prescribed, would in effect be the mere stipendiaries and instruments of the central power.”

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Author:Andrew Jackson

“It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.”

Has Beens Government Religion Source Reviews

Book:The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies

Source: The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies

“Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts.”

Source: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam