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Today we can declare: Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We, the American people, we are the solution

Bill Clinton

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense

Bill Clinton

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws

Calvin Coolidge

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried

Winston Churchill

In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us

Thich Nhat Hanh

Government is not the doctor. It is the disease

H. S. Ferns

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

Thomas Jefferson

That we will, at all times hereafter, consider ourselves as a free and independent state, capable of regulating our internal police, in all and every respect whatsoever -- and that the people on said Grants have the sole and exclusive and inherent right of ruling and governing themselves in such manner and form as in their own wisdom they shall think proper.

Unknown

The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights

H.L. Mencken

It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen

Unknown

We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government

William Howard Taft

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

St. Augustine

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

If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?

Unknown

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy

Unknown

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age

Wystan Hugh Auden

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who 'come out' together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude

Charles Caleb Colton

The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution

Ronald Reagan

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too

Richard Milhouse Nixon

Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews

Richard Milhouse Nixon

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods

Elbert Hubbard

Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things

Unknown

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