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That government is best which governs least.
Thomas Paine
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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
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It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
John W. Gardner
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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan
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Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor.", infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
Wendell Phillips
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
Thomas W. Higginson
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
Thomas W. Higginson
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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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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine
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A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Barry Goldwater
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There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.
Senator John Kerry
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Our government has a simple task: recognize our nation’s real problems, and address them in a manner that reflects the priorities of the American people. It sounds simple, but it’s not happening today, and I know you’re as frustrated with Washington...
Senator John Kerry
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There is a direct link between the federal tax cut of 2001 and state tax increases in 2003. When the federal government`s mistakes force states to raise their taxes, it not only robs Peter to pay Paul, but it hurts hard-working families and it undermines ...
Senator John Kerry
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It’s hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.
Senator John Kerry
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Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward conduct the American people don`t want from their elected leaders: Abusing power. Inserting the government into our...
Senator John Kerry
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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 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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Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
P.J. O`Rourke
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson
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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 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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When the government violates the people`s rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
Marquis De Lafayette
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Good government is no substitute for self-government
Mahatma Gandhi
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Good government is no substitute for self-government
Mahatma Gandhi
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So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government we cannot help but believe that were ever...
Lucy Parsons
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Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
Louis D. Brandeis
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Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
Louis D. Brandeis
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I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
John W. Gardner
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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
John Maynard Keynes
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