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" Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay. "

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" While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. "

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" Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry. "

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

" Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. "

" By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. "

" Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them. "

" You have six of the ten wealthiest counties in America surround Washington, D.C., and the poor and middle class are getting squeezed while people at the top and people with influence in government seem always to be doing better. "

" This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave. "

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

" Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world. "

" Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing. "

" I guess my view is I believe less governance is best governance and that government should not do what the free enterprise and private enterprise and indidividual entrepreneurship and the states can do. "

" When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same. "

" We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. "

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

" We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger. "

" I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females). "

" If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. "

" The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders. "

" If the Democrats want to insult women by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it. "

" A government of, by, and for the people requires that people talk to people, that we can agree to disagree but do so in civility. If we let the politicians and those who report dictate our discourse, then our course will be dictated. "

" But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. "

" You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one. "

" The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. "

" The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States. "

" A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government. "

" The U.S. needs legislation to protect the public's right to free speech and a free press, to protect it from the actions of the executive branch, and to promote the integrity and transparency of the U.S. government. "

" The Costa Rican government is prioritizing laying fiber optic over paving roads. Costa Rica is trying to become one of the Internet societies. This is happening throughout the world. "

" Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests. "

" As a Cherokee, I can attest to the fact that Native Americans have been on the losing side of history. Our rights have been infringed upon, our treaties have been broken, our culture has been stolen, and our tribes have been decimated at the hands of our own United States government. "