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" Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. "

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" The happiness of society is the end of government. "

" A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. "

" We, as citizens, are the true owners of government. "

" Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students. "

Ferdinand Marcos

" The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. "

George Washington

" What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? "

" Only in South Africa could you have a change in government without civil war. If there wasn't the depth of love and caring among our people, this would not have happened. "

Patrice Motsepe

" Everyone calls me Bruno; they don't ever call me Peter - that was just my government name. "

" If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history. "

" A government of, by, and for the people requires that people talk to people, that we can agree to disagree but do so in civility. If we let the politicians and those who report dictate our discourse, then our course will be dictated. "

" Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. "

" Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. "

" For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. "

" My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub. "

Grover Norquist

" I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying. "

" The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. "

Barry Goldwater

" National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government. "

" Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. "

" The very first act of the Confederate Government was to send commissioners to Washington to make terms of peace, and to establish relations of amity between the two sections. "

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

" The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. "

" The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right. "

" It's a wonderful feeling to work in a country where the government's first concern is for its people, for all its people. "

" We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online. "

" People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests. "

" Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. "

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

Marsha Blackburn

" Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong. "

" I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion. "

Leland Stanford

" If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated. "

" As elected officials, we were sent to the halls of government by our neighbors to do their work - and much work needs to be done. Remembering our shared experiences with the people we represent makes us better and more accountable civil servants. "