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“When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.”
— Harry S. Truman
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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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“That government is best which governs least.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”
— Will Rogers
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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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“He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.”
— Confucius
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“The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.”
— H. L. Mencken
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“The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.”
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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“Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.”
— Joe Biden
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“The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.”
— James Madison
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“I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.”
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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“You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.”
— Robert Anton Wilson
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“Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.”
— Ayn Rand
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“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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“If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.”
— Will Rogers
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“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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“There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.”
— Nelson Mandela
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“There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.”
— Benjamin Franklin
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“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
— Voltaire
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“One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.”
— Ronald Reagan
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“Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.”
— Thomas Paine
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“Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”
— Ronald Reagan
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“The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.”
— Robert Anton Wilson
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“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.”
— Aristotle
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