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It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

~Alan Shepard

Topics: Contract Determined Factor Feeling Government Lowest Realize Safety Space Up Very

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Representative government demands an ongoing conversation between legislators and constituents.

~Alan Siegel

Topics: Between Constituents Conversation Demands Government Legislators Ongoing Representative

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Our government should speak a common language with the American people - plain English.

~Alan Siegel

Topics: American American People Common English Government Language Our People Plain Should Speak

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I'm not against the government. I'm against this ever-expanding government that doesn't know its limits. And that's how I see the role of the attorney general, as someone in an office that can protect you and defend the Constitution and defend state sovereignty and our individual liberty.

~Alan Wilson

Topics: Against Attorney Attorney General Constitution Defend General Government How Individual Individual Liberty Know Liberty Limits Office Our Protect Role See Someone Sovereignty State You I See

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The big, defining feature of Palmares Tres government is its system of summer kings. The idea is that women 'Aunties' rule, led by a queen with a term limit of 10 years. Men aren't entirely shut out from this system - in fact, they have one of the most important roles in the government - but it's strictly delimited.

~Alaya Dawn Johnson

Topics: Big Defining Entirely Fact Feature Government Idea Important In Fact Kings Led Limit Men Most Out Queen Roles Rule Shut Strictly Summer System Term The Most Important Women Years

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In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.

~Albert Bushnell Hart

Topics: Active Both Colonies Counties Each Government Had Local Local Government Middle Other Present Relation Some States System Towns Were Western Which

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In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.

~Albert Bushnell Hart

Topics: Came Colonies Era Government New New Era Trade Well

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The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.

~Albert Bushnell Hart

Topics: Carrying Constitutional Different Establishment Government Growth Laws Machinery Making Now Promoted Sets Two Understand

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The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.

~Albert Bushnell Hart

Topics: Actually Because Colonies Departments England Government Had More Only Own Participation People Seemed Significant Three

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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Conscience Definition Government More Nothing Policy Sometimes

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