| "The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita" »Thomas Jefferson |
| "The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government." »George Washington |
| "Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy." »P. J. O'Rourke |
| "Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, Trust me, they're actually being very un-American." »David Duchovny |
| "President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people." »Ralph Nader |
| "The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government they have only a talent for getting and holding office." »H.L. Mencken |
| "Our government sprang from and was made for the people -- not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom." »Andrew Johnson |
| "The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect." »Sam Ewig |
| "It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity." »Alexander Hamilton |
| "Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
| "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped." »Hubert Humphrey |
| "government, is the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government." »MacKenzie King |
| "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 |
| "The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are." »Henry Louis Mencken |
| "Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful." »Alexander Hamilton |
| "Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." »Winston Churchill |
| "There has never been a perfect government, because men have passions and if they did not have passions, there would be no need for government." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government --and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws." »Edward Abbey |
| "Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible." »Hubert Humphrey |
| "Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." »Gerald R. Ford |
| "The less government we have the better." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "The government is us we are the government, you and I." »Theodore Roosevelt |
| "What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves." »Johann von Goethe |
| "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." »Voltaire |
| "If men were angels, no government would be necessary." »James Madison |
| "Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship." »Harry S Truman |
| "There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you." »Will Rogers |
| "That government is best which governs least. - from Civil Disobedience" »Henry David Thoreau |
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