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" If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. "

Frank Herbert

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" What do you despise? By this are you truly known. "

" The American government will be whatever we all make of it. "

" This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave. "

" You have six of the ten wealthiest counties in America surround Washington, D.C., and the poor and middle class are getting squeezed while people at the top and people with influence in government seem always to be doing better. "

" I certainly respect privacy and privacy rights. But on the other hand, the first function of government is to guarantee the security of all the people. "

" Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us. "

" It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. "

" To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote. "

" The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. "

" If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government. "

" Certainly in North Korea, man is always superior to woman. Even the government treats women horribly. What is the slogan? Woman is a flower. "

" As an American, I repudiate Russia's or any other foreign government's attempt to interfere or meddle in our democratic process, and I would call on all Americans to do the same. "

" 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. "

" Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. "

" There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking. "

" Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders. "

" To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches. "

" As families and small businesses alike are tightening their belts to account for the worsening economy, they have every right to ask: 'Why isn't my government doing the same?' "

" The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity. "

" The laws given on Mount Sinai for the government of man and woman were equal; the precepts of Jesus make no distinction. "

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

" While I am a fervent believer in free markets and limited government, there are rare instances in which government involvement is necessary. "

" Something cannot emerge from nothing. "

" The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory. "

" The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations. "

" The world will not accept dictatorship or domination. "