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" If men were angels, no government would be necessary. "

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Thomas Jefferson

" You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance. "

" But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach anyone in college that government is the problem - except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem. "

" By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt. "

" Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable. "

" Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. "

Henry David Thoreau

" What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support? "

" I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us. "

" When the Constitution was written in 1787, there was this supposition that American politics would be above party. The people who would staff the positions in government would have the interests of the country, or at least their states and congressional districts, at heart, and so they wouldn't form permanent political parties. "

" 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. "

" The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot of rich, pious hypocrites who want to share only enough to avoid widespread starvation, mob violence, and government seizure of more of their incomes. "

" A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward. "

Otto von Bismarck

" A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. "

" Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits. "

" It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts fair treatment before the law. "

" How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? "

Charles de Gaulle

" As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States. "

" Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail with our private utterances. "

" That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part. "

Thomas Jefferson

" If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. "

" But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people. "

Maynard James Keenan

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

John Perry Barlow

" No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government. "

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

Toussaint Louverture

" The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people. "

" Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism. "

" If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'? "

" Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination. "

" The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead. "

" Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. "

Louis D. Brandeis