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" Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them. "

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" It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. "

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" How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. "

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

" To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches. "

" 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 important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands. "

" The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread. "

" Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior. "

" I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. "

" The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. "

" My government, a government of national unity, will make all necessary structural reforms. "

" My message to everyone: the next time you hear about migrant children near the border, just picture them as your own. Then think what you would want our government to do. "

" When the Soviet Union fell, optimistic scholars believed the world had shifted inexorably in the direction of free markets and liberal democracy. Instead, the West gradually embraced bigger government and weaker social bonds, creating a fragmented society in which the only thing we all belong to, as President Barack Obama puts it, is the state. "

" The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the State. "

" All socialism involves slavery. "

" The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. "

" No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. "

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

" If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. "

" 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. "

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

" Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

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" Directing a movie is a little bit like being back in student government and putting on the homecoming dance. You're like, 'You put up the streamers, and you hire the DJ, and you get the punch bowl.' Some people are just like, 'This dance sucks.' And you're like, 'No no, this dance is awesome!' You have to be really positive. "

" Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls. "

" I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat. "

" I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an invisible, divine entity created an entire universe just for us, or that the government is stockpiling space aliens in a secret desert location. "

" Certainly in North Korea, man is always superior to woman. Even the government treats women horribly. What is the slogan? Woman is a flower. "

" In the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the government called for an Internet 'unfettered by Federal or State regulation.' The result of that fateful decision was the greatest free-market success story in history. "

" Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. "

" Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. "