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" Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people. "

Grover Cleveland

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" Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. "

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

William Howard Taft

" The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. "

" I like to be involved in politics. I like to be involved in government. I've been in politics all my life. I would like to remain in government. I don't think that's so sinister. "

" The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name. "

" How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese? "

Charles de Gaulle

" You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well. "

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

" We eliminated the monarchy. We put limits on how long one person could lead our country and on the powers they held while in office. We took differences of opinion seriously - in fact, we built them into the fabric of our government. "

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" The Patriot Act is ludicrous. Terrorists have proved that they are interested in total genocide, not subtle little hacks of the U.S. infrastructure, yet the government wants a blank search warrant to spy and snoop on everyone's communications. "

" I believe always you should have a philanthropic heart inside but business way. Because you have to get things done. That is what scientists tell us how to do properly. Business should tell us how to get things done efficiently. And government should have the good environment and the foundations of researching. "

" It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business. "

" I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies. "

" Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell. "

" The laws given on Mount Sinai for the government of man and woman were equal; the precepts of Jesus make no distinction. "

" In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference. "

" 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. "

George Papandreou

" Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint. "

Alexander Hamilton

" We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. "

Henry A. Wallace

" A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. "

" The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. "

Milton Friedman

" The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded. "

Franklin Pierce

" Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. "

Milton Friedman

" The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity. "

Martin Van Buren

" 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

" Voters quickly forget what a man says. "

Richard M. Nixon

" 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. "