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The Lord’s Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.
Author: National Review
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Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else.
Author: Nicolas Walter, About Anarchism
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It’s every American’s duty to support his government, but not necessarily in the style to which it has become accustomed.
Author: Quoted by Thomas Clifford
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Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
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People come to Washington believing it’s the center of power. I know I did. It was only much later that I learned that Washington is a steering wheel that’s not connected to the engine.
Author: Richard Goodwin
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I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.
Author: Richard Rumbold, 1685
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You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them.
Author: Russell Chatham, Silent Seasons, 1978
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The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
Author: Sam Ewing
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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.
Author: Theodore Forstmann
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Author: Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia
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People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote – a very different thing.
Author: Walter H. Judd
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Everybody wants to eat at the government’s table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.
Author: Werner Finck
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Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras…. As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.
Author: William A. Niskanen, ‘For a Less Responsive Government,’ Cato Policy Report, 1996
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Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.
Author: William Allen White (Thanks, Bob)
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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
Author: William E. Borah
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Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
Author: William Ewart Gladstone
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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
Author: William Howard Taft
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Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.
Author: William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude, 1693
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(The Macedonian government) are now in a position of strength and this is the time to take a political step towards the legitimate aspirations of the Albanian population
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. . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.
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