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" Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. "

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

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" 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

" We are a nation of laws with respect and recognition of the rule of law. We are not an imperialist government with a monarch abiding by the rule of one man. "

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" The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. "

" From my father's point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government. "

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" Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable. "

" Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it. "

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" I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. "

" In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. "

Alexis de Tocqueville

" The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's failed every time it's been tried. "

" You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them. "

" Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government. "

" The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion. "

John Paul Stevens

" The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. "

Thomas Jefferson

" I think the people that we hire in government should be just as diverse as the communities we represent. "

Catherine Cortez-Masto

" 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. "

" Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity. "

" As an American, I repudiate Russia's or any other foreign government's attempt to interfere or meddle in our democratic process, and I would call on all Americans to do the same. "

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" Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it. "

Richard M. Nixon

" I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government. "

" 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

" I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference. "

" I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" 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 laws given on Mount Sinai for the government of man and woman were equal; the precepts of Jesus make no distinction. "

" SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete. "

" The happiness of society is the end of government. "

" Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. "