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" The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. "

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" 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

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

" 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. "

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

Marsha Blackburn

" 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

" If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. "

Thomas Jefferson

" 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. "

" The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs. "

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

" Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events. "

" Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing. "

" Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government. "

Grover Cleveland

" The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under. "

" In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Socialism requires that government becomes your god. "

" Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity. "

" I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. "

" The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. "

" 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. "

" A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. "

" Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government. "

" It is our job to work for the government of the day and so that means working for Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, and we need to do those preparations just to be sure that we're ready for whoever you, the British public, elect and that's core to our civil service values over the last 150 years. "

" I think in the end the big issue is that the private sector still needs more help. And the answer is not more big government. I know in my state our reforms allowed us to protect firefighters, police officers, and teachers. "

" If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live. "

" I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections. "

" 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. "

" Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself. "

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

Barry Goldwater

" Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. "

Thomas Jefferson

" A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. "