You have the God-given right to kick the government around--don't hesitate to do so.
Edmund Muske
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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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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
Lord Acton
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Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs.
David Borenstein
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In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.
Theodore Forstmann
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Will Rogers
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My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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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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Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
Michael Novak
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Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Abraham Lincoln
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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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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 others that have been tried from time to time.
Sir Winston Churchill
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