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" Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more. "

William Henry Harrison

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" 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. "

" The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. "

Anthony Kennedy

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" The Patriot Act is ludicrous. Terrorists have proved that they are interested in total genocide, not subtle little hacks of the U.S. infrastructure, yet the government wants a blank search warrant to spy and snoop on everyone's communications. "

" The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought. "

Martin Van Buren

" We, as Indian tribes, should be able to prosecute non-Indians on tribal lands. But on Indian land, we have no ability to prosecute anyone but another Indian. American Indians having status as a foreign nation is good for us, but it's not good in some ways if we don't have the jurisdictional power that the federal government claims. "

" Government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people; it wasn't intended to be all things to all people. "

" The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. "

Henry Ward Beecher

" 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. "

" Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. "

" I hate the unfairness of injustice. Anybody who thinks they are better than others or 'chosen' or feel they have an entitlement... be it through monarchy, government or money. I think we are all born the same. We are entitled to an equal shot at life. "

Liam Cunningham

" Directing a movie is a little bit like being back in student government and putting on the homecoming dance. You're like, 'You put up the streamers, and you hire the DJ, and you get the punch bowl.' Some people are just like, 'This dance sucks.' And you're like, 'No no, this dance is awesome!' You have to be really positive. "

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

Stokely Carmichael

" In every country except - industrial country except the United States, the government uses its massive purchasing power to negotiate drug prices. That's one of the reasons prices are so much higher in the United States than in other countries. "

" Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. "

Herbert Spencer

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

" Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. "

Abraham Lincoln

" When the Constitution was written in 1787, there was this supposition that American politics would be above party. The people who would staff the positions in government would have the interests of the country, or at least their states and congressional districts, at heart, and so they wouldn't form permanent political parties. "

" Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people. "

William McKinley

" Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it. "

" I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park. "

" The British Government very naturally would like to see in India the form of democratic constitutions it knows best and thinks best, under which the Government of the country is entrusted to one or other political party in accordance with the turn of elections. "

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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

Wendell Phillips

" I don't think people maybe think that the government does tell them the truth. I think they expect politicians who are going to tell them one thing and then when they get in office do something else. "

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

" The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. "

" Democracy must learn to defend itself. "

Mikhail Gorbachev

" No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government. "

" We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. "

Henry A. Wallace

" Unlike uranium, plutonium was created in an American lab in 1940, but scientists soon realized that it could produce even wilder chain reactions and even bigger explosions. In fact, fearing another country would create it, too, the American government went to great lengths to keep even the existence of plutonium a secret. "

" It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting. "