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" Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. "

Sydney J. Harris

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" Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better. "

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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. "

" A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character. "

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" How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? "

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" There's an inverse relationship between the size and scope of government and the health of our free-market economy. "

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" All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. "

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" The art of government is the organisation of idolatry. "

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" When an American government takes on characteristics that elevate the state above the individual, it must be vigorously opposed as a form of, or step toward, tyranny. "

" If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? "

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" It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people. "

" A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. "

" For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best. "

" 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. "

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" What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it. "

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" Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. "

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" Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it. "

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" Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. "