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" There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do. "

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" Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. "

Louis D. Brandeis

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Anarchy

People

" The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. "

" Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. "

" To rule is easy, to govern difficult. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Difficult

Easy

Govern

" Change is not in the hands of government, not in the hands of a leader or guru, and not in the hands of the powerful or wealthy. It is in our hands: the hands of each and every one of us. "

Shari Arison

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" Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all. "

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

" Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind. "

" The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision. "

" The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power. "

" A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient. "

" We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop, mature and deliver. People must have access to information for informed debate. Government institutions must treat citizens fairly, and with dignity, while responding to their needs. "

" 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. "

" I think the people that we hire in government should be just as diverse as the communities we represent. "

Catherine Cortez-Masto

Government

Think

People

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

" Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty. "

" The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine. "

" All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. "

William Henry Harrison

Government

Poor

Purpose

" I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. "

" The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people. "

" The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. "

" We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. "

" In the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the government called for an Internet 'unfettered by Federal or State regulation.' The result of that fateful decision was the greatest free-market success story in history. "

" Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy. "

" The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. "

" Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have. "

P. J. O'Rourke

People

Seat

" Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? "

Will Rogers

Going

Rome

" Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. "

" The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God. "

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