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

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" I know people don't like America very much, but the one thing it's very good on is local government. "

" When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. "

Robert A. Heinlein

" The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people. "

" If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end. "

" SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete. "

" The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection. "

" In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations. "

" The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought. "

Martin Van Buren

" To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. "

Wendell Phillips

" The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents. "

" If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine. "

Henry David Thoreau

" It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States. "

" I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government. "

William H. Wharton

" Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile. "

William Lyon Mackenzie King

" Democracy is an abuse of statistics. "

Jorge Luis Borges

" Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them. "

" The Church of Christ is constituted in two orders, the clergy and the people, the one having the care of the Church that all may be ruled for the salvation of souls; the other contains kings, princes, and nobles who have to carry on secular government that all things may lead to the peace and unity of the Church. "

" Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government. "

" Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens. "

" Republican liberty depends on citizen participation, on a government that is of, for, and by the people. "

" Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself. "

" The Keynesian prescription for unemployment rests on the persistence of a 'money illusion' among workers, i.e., on the belief that while, through unions and government, they will keep money wage rates from falling, they will also accept a fall in real wage rates via higher prices. "

Murray Rothbard

" In September 2008, the two largest housing mortgage companies called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were government-sponsored enterprises, which hold hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgages, because of the losses they took on the mortgages, they essentially became insolvent, and the government had to take them over. "

" Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. "

Mary Wollstonecraft

" Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up. "

" We need to change attitudes. We can only change attitudes by working together. Government will do its bit, but I want you all to do your bit, too. So speak out, stand up against violence against women and girls, and that's the way we can eradicate it. "

Working Together

" Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule. "

" The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly. "

Alexander Hamilton

" Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven. "

" If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law. "

Lysander Spooner