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A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Author: Barry Goldwater
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Treaties are like roses and young girls – they last while they last.
Author: Charles de Gaulle
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How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
Author: Charles de Gaulle, about France
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Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.
Author: Charles Frankel
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Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens.
Author: Edgar A. Suter
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Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.
Author: Elmer Davis
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Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
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When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.
Author: George Pataki
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A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon – it won’t work and you can’t fire it.
Author: George S. Patton
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If you want to understand your government, don’t begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today’s statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National.
Author: George Will
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The happiest thing that can be said about democracy… is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility.
Author: H.A. Overstreet
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
Author: H.L. Mencken
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Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
Author: Herbert Hoover, attributed
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The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men.
Author: James Bryce
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A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that’s why we can’t get anything done in the morning: We’re government workers.
Author: Jay Leno
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If people behaved like governments, you’d call the cops.
Author: Kelvin Throop
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The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
Author: Lewis Mumford, in Anne Chisholm, Philosophers of the Earth: Conversations with Ecologists, 1972
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Morphine and state relief are the same. You go dopey, feel better and are worse off.
Author: Martin H. Fischer
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Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
Author: Michael Novak
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Young lovers and young nations face the same problem: after orgasm, what?
Author: Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
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