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" A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. "

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" I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars. "

" It is our job to work for the government of the day and so that means working for Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, and we need to do those preparations just to be sure that we're ready for whoever you, the British public, elect and that's core to our civil service values over the last 150 years. "

" To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat. "

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" A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country. "

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" The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise. "

" All socialism involves slavery. "

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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. "

" Now judicial review, beloved by conservatives, can, of course, fulfill the excellent function of declaring government interventions and tyrannies unconstitutional. But it can also validate and legitimize the government in the eyes of the people by declaring these actions valid and constitutional. "

Murray Rothbard

" The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that. "

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

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" America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation. "

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" While we can never truly repay the debt we owe our heroes, the least we should do for our brave veterans is to ensure that the government takes a proactive approach to delivering the services and benefits they have earned, so they can access the care they need and so richly deserve. "

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" Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more. "

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" If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it's expensive, and it has unquantified risks. And under those conditions, you cannot establish a capital-market evaluation of that enterprise. You can't get investors. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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" The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. "

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" And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. "