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" In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment. "

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" But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. "

Lysander Spooner

Government

Powerless

Constitution

" For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. "

" We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act. "

" If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost. "

Barack Obama

" I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to complain about the government that we are now living under. By the same token, if you don't really vote in television, you're never going to have your way. Write a letter to the president of the network. "

" To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. "

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

" The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. "

" Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well. "

" I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. "

" Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it. "

" We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of Great Britain made liberty the foundation of everything. That country is become a great, mighty, and splendid nation; not because their government is strong and energetic, but, sir, because liberty is its direct end and foundation. "

" The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread. "

" It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract. "

Alan Shepard

Space

Safety

" 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. "

" We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs. "

" The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Most

Rules

Constitution

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

" Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. "

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

" A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. "

" Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government. "

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

" The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed. "

" 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. "

" Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. "

" Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. "

" Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. "

" Democracy is an abuse of statistics. "

" A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion. "