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Bill Clinton2 quotes
The era of big government is over. — Bill Clinton · 1996We need a new Government for a new century, humble enough not to try to solve all our problems for us but strong enough to give us the tools to solve our problems for ourselves... The preeminent mission of our new Government is to give all Americans an opportunity, not a guarantee but a real opportunity, to build better lives. — Bill Clinton · 1997Barry Goldwater1 quote
The government strong enough to give you what you want is strong enough to take it all away. — Barry Goldwater · 1964Benjamin Disraeli1 quote
I repeat... That all power is a trust - that we are accountable for its exercise - that, from the people, and for the people, all springs, and all must exist. — Benjamin Disraeli · 1826Christopher Hitchens1 quote
The secular State is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths. — Christopher Hitchens · 1998George H.W. Bush1 quote
We're a nation of community, of thousands and tens of thousands of ethnic, religious, social, business, labor union, neighborhood, regional and other organizations, all of them varied, voluntary, and unique... A brillant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky. — George H.W. Bush · 1988Jane Addams1 quote
Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. — Jane Addams · 1910Jimmy Carter1 quote
A simple and a proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong. — Jimmy Carter · 1976Lyndon B. Johnson1 quote
This Nation--this generation--in this hour, has man's first chance to build the Great Society--a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor. — Lyndon B. Johnson · 1964Margaret Thatcher1 quote
They are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first. — Margaret Thatcher · 1987Robert H. Jackson1 quote
It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error. — Robert H. Jackson · 1950Ronald Reagan1 quote
It's not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work—work with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it. — Ronald Reagan · 1981Thomas Jefferson1 quote
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. — Thomas Jefferson · 1785