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" The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. "

Thomas Jefferson

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" There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done. "

" Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. "

" Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy. "

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" A Supreme Court justice needs to understand that he is not a politician. He needs to understand that the judiciary is a passive branch of government. His decisions should not proactively seek to set policy. "

" The role of the church and the government are fundamentally different. The church must always show compassion - always. "

" There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. "

" 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. "

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

Barry Goldwater

" If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine. "

Henry David Thoreau

" The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. "

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" One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going to like it. "

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

Grover Cleveland

" A government is for the benefit of all the people. "

William Howard Taft

" Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. "

" A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. "

" Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes. "

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

Stokely Carmichael

" The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. "

William O. Douglas

" Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it. "

" I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. "

Thomas Jefferson

" For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. "

" The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. "

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" He who knows best knows how little he knows. "

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" I cannot live without books. "

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" No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it. "

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" If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement. "

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" I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government. "

Oliver Cromwell

" 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. "

" We are an important check on the powers of the executive. Our consent is necessary for the president to appoint jurists and powerful government officials and, in many respects, to conduct foreign policy. Whether we are of the same party, we are not the president's subordinates. We are his equal! "