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• The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Discovery, America, Political

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• The essence of good government is trust.

  Kathleen Sebelius

  Essence, Transcendentalism

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• Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Military, Moving

  Remarks to state chairs of National White House Conference on Small Business, 15 Aug. 1986

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• The due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government, I have considered the first arrangement of the judicial department as essential to the happiness of the country, and to the stability of its political system.

  George Washington

  Wisdom, 4th Of July, Justice

  "The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private".

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• Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

  Joseph Conrad

  Coins, Literature, May

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Under Western Eyes”, p.25, Joseph Conrad

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• The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Freedom, Real, Exercise

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• Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Peace, War, Philosophical

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• A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Patriotic, Rights, People

  Letter to James Madison, 20 Dec. 1787

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• To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

  Wendell Phillips

  Men, Law, Aggravation

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.305

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• The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Powerful, Character, Reality

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Guy, Voting, Littles

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

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• Government is best which governs least

  Thomas Paine

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Libertarian Party

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• The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

  Ronald Reagan

  Nine, Helping, Conservative

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.

  James Madison

  Nullification, Federalism, Too Much Power

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.215

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• We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

  John Quincy Adams

  Religious, Business, 4th Of July

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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

  Democracies Have, Democracy, Internet

  Parliament of Whores (1991)

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• Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.

  Grover Cleveland

  People, Support, Presidential

  Grover Cleveland (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”

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• Give government the weapons to fight your enemy and it will use them against you.

  Harry Browne

  Fighting, Giving, Enemy

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• The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

  Ronald Reagan

  People, Debt, Littles

  Attributed to Ronald Reagan in "Conservatives betrayed: how George W. Bush and other big government republicans hijacked the Conservative cause" by Richard A. Viguerie (p. 43),

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• Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Problem, Reaganomics

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• The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  World, Anarchy, Next

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.736

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• Truth is the glue that holds government together.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Truth, Honesty, Patriotic

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

  James Madison

  Adversity, Angel, Men

  The Federalist no. 51 (1788)

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  The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strength, Wisdom, Veterans Day

  Letter to William Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787

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