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" Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. "

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" I think that most people who complain about our government have no idea what they're talking about because they've never been to a country with a bad government. "

" 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. "

" You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it. "

" 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. "

" The U.S. needs legislation to protect the public's right to free speech and a free press, to protect it from the actions of the executive branch, and to promote the integrity and transparency of the U.S. government. "

Chelsea Manning

" Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. "

" No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. "

Thomas Jefferson

" I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services. "

" Government has to be cut back like asparagus... every day... or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there's too much of it, the flower becomes a weed. "

" Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism. "

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

" Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. "

Milton Friedman

" I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" Democracy is an abuse of statistics. "

Jorge Luis Borges

" If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law. "

Lysander Spooner

" The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations. "

" 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. "

" Government should take care of those in America who can't care for themselves. That's a role of government. "

" I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females). "

Abraham Lincoln

" The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. "

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

" I can't marry my way into citizenship like straight people can. I can get married in the state of New York where I live, but because of the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government, which hands out visas, won't recognize my marriage. "

Jose Antonio Vargas

" The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. "

" The government is us; we are the government, you and I. "

Theodore Roosevelt

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

" Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. "

" We live under a government of men and morning newspapers. "

Wendell Phillips

" Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government. "

" By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. "

" So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion. "

" A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. "

Thomas Jefferson