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“That government is best which governs least.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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“Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.”
— George Washington
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“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”
— Ronald Reagan
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“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.”
— Abraham Lincoln
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“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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“One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.”
— Lee Iacocca
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“If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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“To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.”
— Thomas Paine
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“Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
— Mark Twain
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“Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”
— George Bernard Shaw
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“A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
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“An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.”
— Confucius
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“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.”
— Mark Twain
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“A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
— George Bernard Shaw
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“The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.”
— Plato
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“The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.”
— George Bernard Shaw
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“It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.”
— Will Rogers
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“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
— Winston Churchill
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“A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.”
— James Madison
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“When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.”
— Harry S. Truman
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“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”
— Winston Churchill
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“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”
— Will Rogers
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“For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.”
— Alexander Pope
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“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”
— Ansel Adams
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“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
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