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" 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. "

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" The American government will be whatever we all make of it. "

" I like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system. "

" I think in the end the big issue is that the private sector still needs more help. And the answer is not more big government. I know in my state our reforms allowed us to protect firefighters, police officers, and teachers. "

" The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. "

Ludwig von Mises

" We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online. "

" 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

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

" You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there. "

" My message to everyone: the next time you hear about migrant children near the border, just picture them as your own. Then think what you would want our government to do. "

" The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under. "

" Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better. "

" Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable. "

" I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.' "

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

Thomas Jefferson

" The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. "

" We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area. "

" Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. "

" I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers. "

Michael Bloomberg

" We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back. "

Melina Mercouri

" I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated. "

" Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" While I am a fervent believer in free markets and limited government, there are rare instances in which government involvement is necessary. "

" You have six of the ten wealthiest counties in America surround Washington, D.C., and the poor and middle class are getting squeezed while people at the top and people with influence in government seem always to be doing better. "

" Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it. "

Cullen Hightower

" The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that. "

" A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government. "

" The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them. "

Cullen Hightower

" Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. "

" I don't think people maybe think that the government does tell them the truth. I think they expect politicians who are going to tell them one thing and then when they get in office do something else. "