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" If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All we have to do is to establish a steady demand for good government. "

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" Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper. "

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" The government of the United States doesn't want peace. It wants to exploit its system of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through war. It wants peace, but what's happening in Iraq? What happened in Lebanon? Palestine? What's happening? What's happened over the last hundred years in Latin America and in the world? "

" We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination. "

" I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. "

" Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending. "

" I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice. "

" We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government. "

" Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up. "

" Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. "

" Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government. "

" Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation. "

" This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. "

" You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic. "

" If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized. "

" I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.' "

Ann Richards

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" Most men think graft a sporadic evil, breaking out here and there, with no connection between outbreaks. I shared the same opinion, but very soon I discovered that the graft in the cities always leads to the graft in the State. "

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

" 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. "

" The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people. "

" If we would vote in mass on the more promising ticket, or, if the two are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in - then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it. "

" From the late 1940s, into and through the '50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it. "

" The essence of good government is trust. "

" Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners. "

" For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. "

" I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. "

" Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed with vital powers. A people cannot be free who do not participate in the control of the government which operates upon them. "

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

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