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" Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them. "

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" 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. "

" A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years. "

" It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. "

" We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. "

Abraham Lincoln

" A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad. "

Oliver Ellsworth

" Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated. "

" When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. "

Winston Churchill

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

" In German science, we have a special problem. We lose talented women at the time they get pregnant. Some of it occurs because they are encouraged - by their husbands, bosses and the government - to take long maternity leaves. "

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

" 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 had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day, sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go . "

" The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name. "

" No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'. "

" 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. "

" If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government. "

Barry Goldwater

" Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. "

George Bernard Shaw

" The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision. "

" Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. "

" 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

" I don't want to put words in Geithner's mouth, but I think he is generally against the revolving door of government officials taking jobs with companies that they have overseen or in roles that involve lobbying. At minimum, I'm pretty sure he felt that way about himself. "

Andrew Ross Sorkin

" The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. "

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

" 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. "

" While there's always plenty of room for improvement, our government is actually quite effective and efficient. Our military and judicial systems and national parks are the best in the world. Unlike in countries where government corruption is rampant, I've never once been solicited for a bribe. "

" The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. "

Thomas Jefferson

" By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. "

John Maynard Keynes

" Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. "

" 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. "

" Under the leaden sway of Alexander III's government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of all hopes for peaceful reforms and by the apparent ineffectiveness of the revolutionary movement, was in the grip of a mood of depression and resignation. "

" There's an inverse relationship between the size and scope of government and the health of our free-market economy. "

Marsha Blackburn

" We cannot watch another family lose everything - risking their lives and the lives of the first responders sent to rescue them - because the flood insurance program's seal of government approval fooled them into thinking they were safe. That's more than wrong: it's immoral. "