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" I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read 'Democracy in America' by Alexis de Tocqueville. There can never be a better book than that one on the strengths and vulnerabilities inherent in our form of government. "

Kurt Vonnegut

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America

Government

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" This country is being managed to death, being public related to death. "

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

" Our elected officials would do well to remember that the most prosperous countries are those that allow consumers - not governments - to direct the use of resources. Allowing the government to pick winners and losers hurts almost everyone, especially our poorest citizens. "

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" The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don't. It's a society where relationships are built on love. "

" Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios. "

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

" Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. "

" I'm perennially intrigued how people who lead largely evidence-based lives can, in a belief-based part of their mind, be certain that an invisible, divine entity created an entire universe just for us, or that the government is stockpiling space aliens in a secret desert location. "

" My purpose is to call on my colleagues, whether they're Republicans or Democrats, to get behind the agenda of trying to reform the government and make it work for the people rather than the other way around. "

" Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. "

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Person

" 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. "

" Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. "

" A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens. "

" The government's only functions are to protect the rights of the individual; therefore, you need a police force and an army. "

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

" The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived. "

" Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people. "

" If people can't expect their government to be honest and clean, they can't expect anything from it. "

" One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it. "

" The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are. "

" The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. "

" To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat. "

" Censorship is advertising paid by the government. "

" In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. "

" When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties. "

" It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business. "