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" 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

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" When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. "

Robert A. Heinlein

" We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another. "

Richard M. Nixon

" Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln. "

" 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

" Think of Bitcoin as a bank account in the cloud, and it's completely decentralized: not the Swiss government, not the American government. It's all the participants in the network enforcing. "

" 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. "

" If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine. "

Henry David Thoreau

" There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism. "

Alexander Hamilton

" As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending. "

" We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. "

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government. "

" To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote. "

" Voters quickly forget what a man says. "

Richard M. Nixon

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

John Maynard Keynes

" A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years. "

" The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. "

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

Benjamin Franklin

" In many... cases, of course, the Arab Spring has brought about instability rather than greater stability. And rather than bringing about government that is more representative and more responsive to the people, you're seeing, frankly, the opposite, or you're seeing all-out war. "

" My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn't do that. "

" Government should take care of those in America who can't care for themselves. That's a role of government. "

" We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens. "

" I think governments can't do much. "

" American government is like a train on a track. You have the people on the left shouting; you have the people on the right. But the train's on track. They just keep ploughing ahead. "

" In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. "

" Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information. "

" Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. "

William E. Gladstone

" The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are. "

" If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live. "

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

Thomas Jefferson