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Society may be likened to a rod, which only a just government can balance properly. -- Ameen Rihani
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. -- Thomas Jefferson
A just government has no need for the clergy or the church. -- James Madison
The purpose of a just government is to prevent plunder, not facilitate it. -- Glenn Beck
The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself. -- Timothy M. Dolan
While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support. -- George Washington
A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty. -- Russell Kirk
That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of their faculties, and free choice of their occupations. -- James Madison
I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either. -- Gary Bauer
I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government.... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government. -- Woodrow Wilson
That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest. -- James Madison
We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support. -- George Washington
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government which impartially secures to every man whatever is his own. -- James Madison
Government is just spending too much money. -- Bob Schaffer
War is just one more big government program. -- Joseph Sobran
I don't like government, it's just that simple. -- Lyn Nofziger
Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work! -- Lou Barletta
Government just simply can't do everything for everyone. -- Jan Brewer
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. -- Alexander Hamilton
The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments. -- Chuck D
Federal judges are just very reluctant to stick the government with responsibility. -- Stewart Udall
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -- Will Smith
Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored. -- Major Owens
Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery. -- Mitch Daniels
In a divided government, you can't just say, 'It's my way or the highway.' -- Jeb Bush
Everyone calls me Bruno; they don't ever call me Peter - that was just my government name. -- Bruno Mars
It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business. -- Herbert Hoover
The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same. -- Marco Rubio
Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government. -- Jack Kemp
What do you think, what people want from their governments? Simple. A better life for themselves and for their children. Government that is fair, just and responsible. -- Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. -- Ayn Rand
Global governance is just a euphemism for global government. -- Jacques Attali
People in government are self-interested just like people in business. -- David Boaz
We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest. -- Thomas Jefferson
SARS is just made up by the Government of the United States! -- Bif Naked
Government not just for a few, it belongs to the common people. -- Narendra Modi
Government bailouts are like potato chips: You can't stop with just one. -- Thomas Sowell
Child support should do just that - support children, not the federal government. -- Paul Ryan
Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -- Will Smith
No Taxes. Let's just tip the government 15% if they do a good job. -- Pat Paulsen
We're against the state, not government. The state just happens to monopolize the government. -- Stephan Kinsella
A government cannot be truly just without affirming the intrinsic value of human life. -- Charles Colson
In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American. -- Antonin Scalia
Republicans do actually care about health care. They just don't care about government-run health care. -- Greg Gutfeld
We just need the government to be that greenhouse that permits our faith to grow. -- Max Lucado
It's time to make our government work for all of us... and not just the 1%. -- Bernie Sanders
Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty. -- Alan Keyes
A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government. -- Paul Keating
We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation. -- Hank Johnson
Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government? -- Voltaire
Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything. -- Mark Thornton
...open-market democratic capitalism isn't the best system of government in the world, it just works the best. -- John Ringo
The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion. -- Preston Manning
We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government. -- Glenn Beck
Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire. -- Wanda Sykes
If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government. -- Abraham Lincoln
We've been on a long break and I've just been kicking back, doing nothing. Like our government. -- Bill Maher
Socialism isn't just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view. -- Anderson Cooper
[John Howard] led the Government. They had the numbers, and just basically automatically went along with the Americans. -- Bob Hawke
Just a recognition of the reality of decision-making and the state of play in the government of Israel. -- Richard Boucher
Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. -- Henry David Thoreau
If we want to move forward, not just the Government but 125 crore Indians will have to do something. -- Narendra Modi
The government, the state, they're just objects of jokes rather than serious consideration. I can't possibly take them seriously. -- Joseph Brodsky
Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much. -- Abraham Lincoln
Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government's dead body, frankly. It just won't happen. -- Tony Abbott
The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power, they just don't have. -- Floyd Abrams
A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second. -- Harry Browne
American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just. -- Ginny Brown-Waite
Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter. -- Patty Hearst
Can we understand - just for the record, we do need the government for a lot of big ticket items. -- Rob Lowe
One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties. -- William Weld
The government of our great country belongs to all of the people and not just a handful of the wealthy. -- Bernie Sanders
I want my government to do something about my privacy - I don't want to just do it on my own. -- Evgeny Morozov
When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery. -- Barry Eisler
As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea. -- Charlotte Bunch
What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it. -- Marc Faber
Lawmakers need to be held accountable and should feel the impact of a government shutdown just like many other Americans will. -- Debbie Stabenow
I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it? -- Pat Paulsen
How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual? -- Will Rogers
Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities. -- Jared Polis
We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country. -- Van Jones
Your money has never been safe in the government's hands, and it never will be. Governments spend money; it's just their nature. -- Ron Paul
During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events. -- Tariq Ali
The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective -- James Madison
It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution. -- Russ Feingold
I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don't they just print our money with a return address on it? -- Bob Hope
You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?' -- Neal Boortz
People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them. -- Calvin Trillin
When we're talking about the "American response" to any disaster, it's not just a government response, an official response, it's a popular response. -- Richard Norton Smith
Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear. -- Kate Winslet
I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies. -- Bob Hawke
Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily. -- Maynard James Keenan
If your kid comes out of the bedroom and says he just shut down the government, he should have an outfit for that. -- John Waters
In our own lives, let each of us asknot just what government will do for me, but what can I do for myself? -- Richard M. Nixon
Those policies - more taxes, more regulation, more debt, more spending, more government - will make American worse. It just will, in my view. -- Jeff Sessions
I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government! -- Trevor Rabin
Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility. -- Paul Fussell
It's up to me to promote my faith and somebody else to promote theirs. Let the government just protect our right to do so. -- Max Lucado
We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives. -- Sonny Perdue
A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species. -- James Madison
Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection. -- Don Tapscott
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Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by government. -- Marshall Herskovitz
For the ANC to cry 'sabotage' the night before crucial local government elections shows just how desperate they are to disguise their incompetence and mismanagement. -- Helen Zille
Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today. -- Kurt Vonnegut
If the national government doesn't fix your problem, you've got a problem. You've got to fix it yourself. That's just part of the American way. -- Tony La Russa
If you are focusing your anger at government, you are focusing your anger at all of us. Government is just a personification of this country. -- William J. Clinton
The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. -- Thomas Jefferson
Even more important than the discovery of Columbus, which we are gathered together to celebrate, is the fact that the general government has just discovered women. -- Honore Daumier
I'm just am amazed that he seems to think the Iraqi government and our allies and everybody else launched the attack on Mosul for this election [2016]. -- Hillary Clinton
One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
And, of course, liberals see no problem with using the government to impose their cultural beliefs on others; they just won't admit that's what they're doing. -- Jonah Goldberg
I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything. -- Rick Warren
Openness fundamentally affects a lot of the core institutions in society - the media, the economy, how people relate to the government and just their leadership. -- Mark Zuckerberg
People who have put money aside on the basis of a certain set of rules shouldn't have that money raided just because government has got a problem. -- Tony Abbott

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