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" Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? "

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" Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs. "

" If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. "

" The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality. "

" Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious. "

" The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity. "

" We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online. "

" Americans don't know the Constitution. More than half of those surveyed can't name any of the rights guaranteed under the First Amendment. Only a quarter can name all three branches of government. "

Elizabeth Flock

" Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. "

Frederic Bastiat

" Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction. "

" Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong. "

" The economical policies that are instigated really makes you think that the American government is a bunch of evil bastards. So just because you're black, you're still representing that government, and when Obama came into office he enacted the same policies that we would critique other presidents for. "

" I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more. "

" Somewhere along the line, the actions of this government are the actions of me. "

" We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. "

Wendell Phillips

" A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none. "

" What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds. "

" No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! "

" If you work for the federal government, the average salary is $7,000 higher than the private sector. Something's wrong with that, when you're making more money working for the government than you can working in the private sector. "

" Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. "

" Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. "

" American businesses deserve a federal government that doesn't stand in their way, not one that tries to chase them overseas. "

" A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it. "

" The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. "

" In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. "

Abraham Lincoln

" The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract. "

Robert A. Heinlein

" A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens. "

" 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. "

" We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business? "

" When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs. "