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

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" In the 1980s, in the communist Eastern Germany, if you owned a typewriter, you had to register it with the government. You had to register a sample sheet of text out of the typewriter. And this was done so the government could track where text was coming from. "

" All socialism involves slavery. "

Herbert Spencer

" Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started. "

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

" Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all. "

" Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government. "

Alexander Hamilton

" The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise. "

" Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. "

" Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights. "

Leland Stanford

" Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough. "

" The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly. "

Alexander Hamilton

" The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of the constitution, form the supreme law of the land. "

" Government is inevitably going to play a very significant role in infrastructure, and in a country with a federal system where vibrancy and economic health depend on interstate commerce, it's not going to be private enterprise or state governments that will give you things like an interstate highway system. "

Norman Ornstein

" The 'Patriot Act,' 'Enhancing domestic security,' and 'Protect America' all sound great - until you realize that they're catch phrases for programs that contain roving wire taps without a warrant and the collection and sale of your personal information to the U.S. government. "

" The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament. "

" Buy land, they're not making it anymore. "

" This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty. "

" When we embraced social media, we took more control of the Newark narrative. We increased responsiveness toward residents. We drew more of our constituents in to participate in government and improve our cities. "

" If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. "

" If you want to believe that the government's coming for our guns or that being gay is a choice and a sin or that ObamaCare signals the end of civilization or that cutting taxes for rich people is the path to a better America, that's your choice. I'm never going to believe in any of that. "

" 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. "

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

Saint Augustine

" It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races. "

" All government, of course, is against liberty. "

" I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving. "

" I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government. "

Oliver Cromwell

" You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance. "

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

James Russell Lowell

" As a Cherokee, I can attest to the fact that Native Americans have been on the losing side of history. Our rights have been infringed upon, our treaties have been broken, our culture has been stolen, and our tribes have been decimated at the hands of our own United States government. "

Markwayne Mullin

" The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget. "

" It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot. "

Susan B. Anthony