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

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George Farquhar

" When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. "

" 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. "

" It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. "

Alexander Hamilton

" Tonight, I want to say to every member of the democratic party, who believes in limited government, in personal opportunity and the united States constitution, and a safe and secure America, come home. To the Reagan Democrats, your party has left you. And the Republican party wants you, we welcome you back. "

" We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger. "

Toussaint Louverture

" When we embraced social media, we took more control of the Newark narrative. We increased responsiveness toward residents. We drew more of our constituents in to participate in government and improve our cities. "

" Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" Because tax cuts create an incentive to increase output, employment, and production, they also help balance the budget by reducing means-tested government expenditures. A faster-growing economy means lower unemployment and higher incomes, resulting in reduced unemployment benefits and other social welfare programs. "

" I think that most people who complain about our government have no idea what they're talking about because they've never been to a country with a bad 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. "

" In the 1980s, in the communist Eastern Germany, if you owned a typewriter, you had to register it with the government. You had to register a sample sheet of text out of the typewriter. And this was done so the government could track where text was coming from. "

" The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people. "

" When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. "

Winston Churchill

" Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination. "

" War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits. "

" A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. "

" You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance. "

" Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. "

Benjamin Franklin

" A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character. "

Lysander Spooner

" Certainly in North Korea, man is always superior to woman. Even the government treats women horribly. What is the slogan? Woman is a flower. "

" The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other. "

" Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. "

Milton Friedman

" It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. "

George Washington

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

Wendell Phillips

" Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living. "

" In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time. "

" You don't pay taxes - they take taxes. "

" Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. "