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"Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master."	Dwight Eisenhower
"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure."	Bertrand Russell
"From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?"	Thomas Paine
"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions."	Daniel Webster
"Government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do it harm."	Nicolo Machiavelli
"Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets."	Ronald Reagan
"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."	Ronald Reagan
"Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem."	Ronald Reagan
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."	George Washington
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."	Thomas Paine
"History, in general, only informs us what bad government is."	Thomas Jefferson
"How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?"	Charles de Gaulle
"How lucky for those in power that people don't think."	Adolf Hitler
"I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time."	Henry Mencken
"I didn't come to Washington to be loved and I haven't been disappointed."	Philip L. Gramm
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."	Will Rogers
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power."	Thomas Jefferson
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."	Thomas Jefferson
"I think the best possible social program is a job."	Ronald Reagan
"I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies."	William F. Buckley

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