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

Theodore Roosevelt

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" Let's make it simple: Government control means uniformity, regulation, fees, inspection, and yes, compliance. "

" All government wars are unjust. "

Murray Rothbard

" The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. "

" An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. "

" No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards. "

Donella Meadows

" Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years. "

Benjamin Netanyahu

" The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. "

" My message to everyone: the next time you hear about migrant children near the border, just picture them as your own. Then think what you would want our government to do. "

" I guess my view is I believe less governance is best governance and that government should not do what the free enterprise and private enterprise and indidividual entrepreneurship and the states can do. "

" When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility. "

" Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. "

William E. Gladstone

" 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

" When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. "

" No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. "

John W. Gardner

" 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. "

" Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation. "

" I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that's missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash - a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B without A knowing B or B knowing A. "

Milton Friedman

" We must work toward cyber doctrine that reflects the wisdom of free markets, private competition, and the important but limited role of government in establishing and enforcing the rule of law, honoring the rights of personal property, the benefits of free and fair trade, and the fundamental principles of liberty. "

" In many... cases, of course, the Arab Spring has brought about instability rather than greater stability. And rather than bringing about government that is more representative and more responsive to the people, you're seeing, frankly, the opposite, or you're seeing all-out war. "

" I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship. "

Bharati Mukherjee

" When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. "

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Stokely Carmichael

" If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public. "

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

" 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

" The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" 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. "

" The Keynesian prescription for unemployment rests on the persistence of a 'money illusion' among workers, i.e., on the belief that while, through unions and government, they will keep money wage rates from falling, they will also accept a fall in real wage rates via higher prices. "

Murray Rothbard