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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking
I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians
Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, [including] the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions
Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government
Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, Trust me, they're actually being very un-American.
The less government we have the better
The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have
What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs
The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform
Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself
As government expands, liberty contracts
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size
Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?
The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not hesita
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments
Our government sprang from and was made for the people -- not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance; from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom
Our government sprang from and was made for the people -- not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance; from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom
Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want-and their kids pay for it
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government
Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves
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