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" Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it. "

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

Mikhail Gorbachev

" That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights. "

Leland Stanford

" 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. "

William E. Simon

" The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. "

Thomas Jefferson

" You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance. "

" Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions. "

" The bottom line is there are lots of problems that were not created by government. The biggest one is loss of middle class incomes, loss of good-paying jobs which was created by technology and globalization. Above all, when you can move a job to China or India, it reduces wages. "

" The United States of America was originally an experiment. But it was an experiment in recognizing God-given individual liberty and creating a government in which we no one is deemed better than another. And in which all of us are equal. Not equal in abilities, but equal in intrinsic worth and value. "

" Even a very brief tape-delay introduces a form of censorship into the broadcast - not direct governmental control, but it means that a network representative is in effect guessing at what a government might tolerate, which can be even worse. "

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

Henry David Thoreau

" 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

" If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public. "

" I'm a conservative who likes small government and lower taxes. "

" The Patriot Act is ludicrous. Terrorists have proved that they are interested in total genocide, not subtle little hacks of the U.S. infrastructure, yet the government wants a blank search warrant to spy and snoop on everyone's communications. "

" Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government agency. "

" I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies. "

" The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad. "

" A Supreme Court justice needs to understand that he is not a politician. He needs to understand that the judiciary is a passive branch of government. His decisions should not proactively seek to set policy. "

" 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. "

" Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. "

Adrian Cronauer

" Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. "

" The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. "

Ludwig von Mises

" The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. "

Hubert H. Humphrey

" Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed with vital powers. A people cannot be free who do not participate in the control of the government which operates upon them. "

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

" Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is. "

" 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. "

" Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better. "

" The American people deserve truthfulness, not more political campaigning. The American people deserve a responsible government that seeks to address their needs, not more ideological dogma. "