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" Inside North Korea, we have many informants and spies watching everyone; they're paid by the government. Even a husband and wife can't trust each other. "

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" Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. "

Frederic Bastiat

" People like getting what they think is free stuff from government. "

" Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. "

Thomas Jefferson

" When an American government takes on characteristics that elevate the state above the individual, it must be vigorously opposed as a form of, or step toward, tyranny. "

" Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong. "

" The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities. "

" Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them. "

Elizabeth Warren

" 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. "

" But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. "

" The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit. "

" In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? "

Saint Augustine

" There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained. "

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

" What I'm thinking about more and more these days is simply the importance of transparency, and Jefferson's saying that he'd rather have a free press without a government than a government without a free press. "

" My purpose is to call on my colleagues, whether they're Republicans or Democrats, to get behind the agenda of trying to reform the government and make it work for the people rather than the other way around. "

" The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people. "

" 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. "

" Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf. "

" The bottom line is there are lots of problems that were not created by government. The biggest one is loss of middle class incomes, loss of good-paying jobs which was created by technology and globalization. Above all, when you can move a job to China or India, it reduces wages. "

" In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. "

Alexis de Tocqueville

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

" From my father's point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government. "

Thomas Steinbeck

" I'm concerned about truth and credibility in government. "

George W. Romney

" I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies. "

" The art of government is the organisation of idolatry. "

George Bernard Shaw

" I was growing up in Hyesan, right by the closest North Korea-China border. China was just across the river: you could see across. So I was curious. On the river, on both sides, you have houses, then mountains. I wanted to know what was on the other side of the Chinese mountains. "

" Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country. "

" Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. "

" There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience. "

Stokely Carmichael

" To rule is easy, to govern difficult. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe