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

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" If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. "

" A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient. "

" The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. "

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" In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. "

Alexander Hamilton

" Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them. "

" When the Constitution was written in 1787, there was this supposition that American politics would be above party. The people who would staff the positions in government would have the interests of the country, or at least their states and congressional districts, at heart, and so they wouldn't form permanent political parties. "

" Republican liberty depends on citizen participation, on a government that is of, for, and by the people. "

" If we're the country that makes Amazon and Facebook and Twitter, why can't the federal government have websites and digital services that are awesome? "

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

" The United States of America was originally an experiment. But it was an experiment in recognizing God-given individual liberty and creating a government in which we no one is deemed better than another. And in which all of us are equal. Not equal in abilities, but equal in intrinsic worth and value. "

" A child can escape the shadows. "

" Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it. "

" No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent. "

Abraham Lincoln

" By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. "

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" Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them. "

" I might not be a great athlete, but I think I'm a real good football player. "

" I'm not bragging, but just going Sunday to Sunday, it will be a real rare game when I don't catch a pass. "

" We are a nation of laws with respect and recognition of the rule of law. We are not an imperialist government with a monarch abiding by the rule of one man. "

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" When the Soviet Union fell, optimistic scholars believed the world had shifted inexorably in the direction of free markets and liberal democracy. Instead, the West gradually embraced bigger government and weaker social bonds, creating a fragmented society in which the only thing we all belong to, as President Barack Obama puts it, is the state. "

" Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. "

" When an American government takes on characteristics that elevate the state above the individual, it must be vigorously opposed as a form of, or step toward, tyranny. "

" I can't marry my way into citizenship like straight people can. I can get married in the state of New York where I live, but because of the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government, which hands out visas, won't recognize my marriage. "

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" The budget doesn't have much control over the government. Then again, the government doesn't have much control over the budget. "

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

" The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion. "

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" Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent. "

" The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God. "

" 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