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" Government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people; it wasn't intended to be all things to all people. "

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" My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims. "

" 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. "

" If taxes and government spending are both slashed, then the salutary result will be to lower the parasitic burden of government taxes and spending upon the productive activities of the private sector. "

Murray Rothbard

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

" I have no doubt that if we act with proper focus, we can protect our borders, our sovereignty, and our citizens, all while remaining true to America's noblest legacies. "

" The trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn by lot from the mass of the people, for the very purpose of having all classes of minds and feelings, that prevail among the people at large, represented in the jury. "

Lysander Spooner

" I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. "

" Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence. "

" For almost two centuries, American gray wolves, vilified in fact as well as fiction, were the victims of vicious government extermination programs. By the time the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, only a few hundred of these once-great predators were left in the lower 48 states. "

" I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried. "

" We now should hope and pray for a peace process. We've had good negotiations with both sides. Those are going to continue; those are going to be a commitment by the president and something that we're going to work hard on. And we all hope, for the sake of Israeli children and Palestinian children, that we do have peace. "

" Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent. "

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

John Paul Stevens

" Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. "

" The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security. "

" The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them. "

Cullen Hightower

" A heck of a lot more accountability comes from individuals or the church doing it than the government, that signs off on helping people at 5 o'clock, because it comes from the heart, not from a badge or a mandate. "

" The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage. "

" I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services. "

" Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. "

" Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. "

John Perry Barlow

" It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot. "

Susan B. Anthony

" 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

" When the United Nations consistently fails in its duty to act collectively, there are times in the life of states that we are compelled to take our own action. "

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

" Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

" Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety. "

Arnold Schwarzenegger

" I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. "

John Maynard Keynes

" What I'm trying to bring attention to is that human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the governments are treating their people. "

" The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. "