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"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." Samuel Adams 4.615384615384615 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"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." Aristotle 4.7 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives." Will Rogers 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself." Alexander Hamilton 4.9 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." Dwight Eisenhower 4.666666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes." Dwight Eisenhower 4.583333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." Benjamin Franklin 4.636363636363637 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." Thomas Jefferson 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence." John Adams 4.454545454545454 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death." George Carlin 4.625 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things." Adam Smith 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"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 2 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself." Ronald Reagan 4.333333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"No government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family's care." Hillary Clinton 3.1481481481481484 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size." Ronald Reagan 4.2727272727272725 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep." Carl Jung 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption." James Garfield 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Of course the people dont want war...that is understood. But voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." Hermann Goering 4.868421052631579 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God." GK Chesterton 4.444444444444445 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government." Daniel Webster 4.666666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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