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" But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. "

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" All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them. "

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" We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act. "

" I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried. "

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

" Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government. "

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

" We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. "

" The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. "

" We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area. "

" No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'. "

" We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back. "

" There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience. "

" Optimism is the ultimate definition of a leader. A leader has to look optimistically at what is ahead while not ignoring the challenges that must be overcome. Those challenges are in government, politics, world leadership, and even in community life. "

" Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success. "

" The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them. "

" My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims. "

" The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment. "

" I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy administration at that time - into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen. "

" The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy. "

" Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes. "

" The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated. "

" A government of laws, and not of men. "

" Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. "

" Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people. "

" In 2006, I entered the presidential palace in the main square of La Paz as the first indigenous president of Bolivia. Our government, under the slogan 'Bolivia Changes,' is committed to ending the colonialism, racism and exclusion that many of our people lived under for many centuries. "

" Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government. "

" The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. "

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

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

" If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government. "