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" While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile. "

Madeleine Albright

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" Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government. "

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" Our elected officials would do well to remember that the most prosperous countries are those that allow consumers - not governments - to direct the use of resources. Allowing the government to pick winners and losers hurts almost everyone, especially our poorest citizens. "

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

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" Unlike uranium, plutonium was created in an American lab in 1940, but scientists soon realized that it could produce even wilder chain reactions and even bigger explosions. In fact, fearing another country would create it, too, the American government went to great lengths to keep even the existence of plutonium a secret. "

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

Benjamin Franklin

" If you work for the federal government, the average salary is $7,000 higher than the private sector. Something's wrong with that, when you're making more money working for the government than you can working in the private sector. "

" But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. "

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" A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. "

" The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not? "

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