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| I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms |
| Henry Louis Mencken |
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| I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. |
| Woody Allen |
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| I can not deny that all may be swept away. Broken by it, I, too, may be; bow to it I never will. The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause that we believe to be just; it shall not deter me. |
| Abraham Lincoln |
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| I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under themselves; and that, if this c |
| George Washington |
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| I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going |
| George Bernard Shaw |
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| Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. |
| Benjamin Franklin |
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| If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, - and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter |
| Edmund Burke |
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| If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. |
| P. J. O'Rourke |
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| If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong |
| John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude |
| George Washington |
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| In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other |
| Voltaire |
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| In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters |
| George Washington |
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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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| It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies |
| Abraham Lincoln |
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| It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. |
| Voltaire |
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| It was the government that should have been told to refrain from its inhuman policy of violence and massacre, not the African people .... It was further argued that it is wrong and indefensible for a political Organization to repudiate picketing, whi |
| Nelson Mandela |
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| Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it... The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. |
| Woodrow T. Wilson |
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| Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago |
| Will Rogers |
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