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Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.

We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government.

The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

A government of laws, and not of men.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.