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" 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. "
James Madison
Reap
People
War
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" While there's always plenty of room for improvement, our government is actually quite effective and efficient. Our military and judicial systems and national parks are the best in the world. Unlike in countries where government corruption is rampant, I've never once been solicited for a bribe. "
Whitney Tilson
Government
World
Improvement
" Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. "
James Russell Lowell
Democracy
Government
Oppressor
" History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior. "
Vladimir Putin
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History
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" But only 'rich' people by definition have the 'extra' money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that 'extra' money away - and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times? "
Terry Savage
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Growth
Tough Times
" The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. "
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Govern
Ourselves
" Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism. "
Ben Shapiro
Realism
Cynicism
Distrust
" The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. "
Ted Nugent
Government
Corruption
Control
" The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself. "
James Madison
Liberty
Policy
Blessings
" An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. "
Confucius
Than
Feared
Government
" Real government is about looking beyond the vested to the national interest, setting up the necessary conditions to enable the next, more enabled and more empowered generation to achieve a country as prosperous, a people as content, as ours deserve to be. "
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Government
People
Generation
" The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations. "
Glenn Greenwald
Opportunity
Evidence
Government
" Government is essentially immoral. "
Herbert Spencer
Essentially
Immoral
Government
" But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government. "
James Q. Wilson
Size
Government
Federal Government
" We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again. "
Marco Rubio
Money
People
Discipline
" 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. "
Elena Kagan
Choices
Responsibility
Respect
" It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. "
James Madison
Choice
Men
Own
" I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world. "
Ginger Baker
World
Think
Now
" No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. "
Thomas Jefferson
Without
Where
Government
" Government is at its worst when you have apathy from its citizens. "
Jesse Ventura
You
Government
Worst
" Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. "
Theodore Roosevelt
Responsibility
People
Government
" My purpose is to call on my colleagues, whether they're Republicans or Democrats, to get behind the agenda of trying to reform the government and make it work for the people rather than the other way around. "
Mike Lee
Purpose
People
Government
" We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government. "
Paul Ryan
Believe
Liberty
Happiness
" In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home. "
Abraham Lincoln
I Am
Home
Wild
" The very first act of the Confederate Government was to send commissioners to Washington to make terms of peace, and to establish relations of amity between the two sections. "
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
Act
Peace
Two
" While I am a fervent believer in free markets and limited government, there are rare instances in which government involvement is necessary. "
Steve Largent
Involvement
Government
Free
" If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end. "
Herbert Hoover
Then
Law
End
" All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion. "
Narendra Modi
Responsibility
Religion
Government
" I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to complain about the government that we are now living under. By the same token, if you don't really vote in television, you're never going to have your way. Write a letter to the president of the network. "
Bill Bixby
Vote
People
Government
" The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes. "
Milton Friedman
Important
Think
Government
" I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. "
H. L. Mencken
Trying
Government
Evil