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" Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. "
Fred Woodworth
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" A government of laws, and not of men. "
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" The Pledge clearly acknowledges the fact that our freedoms in this country come from God, not government. "
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" The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. "
Andrew Jackson
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" Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it. "
Lao Tzu
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" I think that most people who complain about our government have no idea what they're talking about because they've never been to a country with a bad government. "
Whitney Tilson
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" What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? "
James Madison
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" 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. "
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" I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University. "
William F. Buckley, Jr.
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" The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. "
Thomas Jefferson
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" If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement. "
Robert Kiyosaki
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" 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. "
Ben Shapiro
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World
" I'm a conservative who likes small government and lower taxes. "
Charlie Sykes
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" If you work for the federal government, the average salary is $7,000 higher than the private sector. Something's wrong with that, when you're making more money working for the government than you can working in the private sector. "
Jesse Ventura
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" As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States. "
Bill Owens
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" All government wars are unjust. "
Murray Rothbard
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" If people can't expect their government to be honest and clean, they can't expect anything from it. "
Josh Hawley
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Clean
" As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world. "
Noam Chomsky
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" In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. "
Voltaire
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Art
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" It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States. "
Andrew Jackson
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President
" The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not? "
Bill O'Reilly
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" Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. "
Edward Gibbon
Monarchy
Present
World
" The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. "
John Acton
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People
" A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government. "
Lysander Spooner
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" Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty. "
Hubert H. Humphrey
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" There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams - this is what makes our country so special. "
Valerie Jarrett
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Work
" Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. "
Ronald Reagan
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" Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry. "
Gary Johnson
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" Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government. "
Mackenzie King
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" The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts. "
Victor Mitchell
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More
" The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities. "
Jose Rizal
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Truth