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The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.

- Donald Rumsfeld

Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.

- Jesse Ventura

I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.

- Jesse Ventura

These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists` rights to free speech, which is something that we respect.

- Tipper Gore

those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas, too frequent among us. . . .

- Bill Bennett

A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.

- Ron Paul
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Slots will be replaced by voluntary fill-ins, ... The guys who can`t go down there, it gives them a chance to help out.

- Mike Bailey

We still get a lot done in a voluntary fashion.

- Mary Smith

We`ve heard stories that police confronting people at Bob Woodruff Park...and talking to people about voluntary compliance.

- Jim Fox
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The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.

- David Suzuki

If I were assigned poems I suppose I`d write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.

- Thomas Lynch

(The body is) a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!

- Adrianne Harris

All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.

- Aimee Litka

The course that will restore to the workmen a father`s duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped, is for them to reject all forced contributions from others, and to do their own work through their own voluntary combinations.

- Al Gonzales

The Anarchists answer that the abolition of the State will leave in existence a defensive association, resting no longer on a compulsory but on a voluntary basis, which will restrain invaders by any means that may prove necessary.

- Al Nash
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This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.

- Al Nash
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Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.

- Al Siebert

Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it`s forced.

- Al Waller

Also in the new constitution, we want to lower the voting age from 20 years to 18 years and also gradually implement a voluntary military service in replacement of the current compulsory military service.

- Alan Heap

The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don`t have to participate.

- Alba Quinones

The United States and the other original nuclear weapons states have all agreed to a voluntary moratorium on fissile material production.

- Albro Lundy III

We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.

- Alexander Alexeyev

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.

- Allan Gurganus

The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath.

- Allan Walsh

The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.

- Allen Lee

Creating voluntary personal retirement accounts for our workers just entering the work force are a good idea that Congress should examine.

- Amanda Rickhoff

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

- Amy Kemp
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Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.

- Andre Bauer

The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years.

- Andrew Bozoian

This case involves constitutional rights at the heart of our free society: The freedom of a private, voluntary, noncommercial organization to create and interpret its own moral code and to choose leaders and define membership criteria accordingly,

- Andy Capp

The G-8 has clearly rejected the failed U.S. policy of voluntary programs to address global warming.

- Angela Kelley

The board has made her working conditions intolerable ... She`s being forced out -- let`s face it. This is not a voluntary resignation. The work is so far from over -- it`s just a shame Arlene doesn`t get to stay here and finish it. She`s a tremendous leader, a tremendous educator and a wonderful human being.

- Anthony Griffin

The assessments are part of a stringent process to verify that the Brownsburg Police Department meets and maintains the superior standards established by the internationally recognized CALEA, ... The process is voluntary to achieve and maintain accredited status, a highly esteemed recognition of law enforcement professional excellence.

- Anthony Nicodemo

(The accords are voluntary but include firm targets-like increasing renewable energy use to 10 percent within seven years, and reducing per capita water consumption by 10 percent by 2015. Generation Earth, a nonprofit group that worked with ICLEI and U.N. officials to organize the summit, will regularly grade each city`s effort to meet the accords.) There is tremendous power in targets and timetables, ... Even if the same person isn`t there, if you set a goal of 10 percent renewable power within seven years, you can check and see if they`ve achieved it.

- Avner Goren

But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

- G.K. Chesterton

Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.

- Brigham Young