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" I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park. "

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" Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology - absolutely. "

" I stand today on this floor to appeal for protection from the strong arm of the government for her loyal children, irrespective of color and race, who are citizens of the southern states, and particularly of the State of Georgia. "

Hiram Rhodes Revels

" No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" We all want prosperity, but not at the expense of liberty. Poverty is not as great a danger to liberty as is wealth, with its corrupting, demoralizing influences. Let us never have a Government at Washington owing its retention to the power of the millionaires rather than to the will of millions. "

Joseph Pulitzer

" Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it. "

" The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget. "

" Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. "

Thomas Jefferson

" The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine. "

" Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness. "

" I first met Bev Shea while in Chicago when he was on Moody Radio. As a young man starting my ministry, I asked Bev if he would join me. He said yes, and for over 60 years we had the privilege of ministering together across the country and around the world. "

" Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming. "

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

" Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it. "

" Voters did say 'repeal health care', they did say 'reduce the size of government.' But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said 'give tax breaks to the wealthiest.' "

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger

" The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. "

" Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do. "

" Democracy must learn to defend itself. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

" Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living. "

" I don't think people maybe think that the government does tell them the truth. I think they expect politicians who are going to tell them one thing and then when they get in office do something else. "

" If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live. "

" Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. "

Milton Friedman

" 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. "

" Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government. "

William Lyon Mackenzie King

" The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge. "

Lal Bahadur Shastri

" The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. "

" Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. "

Milton Friedman

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

" There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done. "