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| The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. |
| P. J. O'Rourke |
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| The established government has no more right to call itself the state than the smoke of London has to call itself the weather. |
| George Bernard Shaw |
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| The government has interpreted the peacefulness of the movement as a weakness: the people's non-violent policies have been taken as a green light for government violence. Refusal to resort to force has been interpreted by the government as an invitat |
| Nelson Mandela |
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| The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion |
| George Washington |
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| The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. |
| Woodrow T. Wilson |
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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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| The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. |
| Thomas Paine |
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| The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. |
| Henry Louis Mencken |
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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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| The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual. |
| Albert Einstein |
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| The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. |
| Ayn Rand |
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| The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ...finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. |
| George Washington |
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| The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men |
| Plato |
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| The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative. |
| Eugene J. McCarthy |
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| The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public notice |
| Henry Louis Mencken |
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| The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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| 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 |
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| The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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