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"I think the best possible social program is a job."	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
"The government is best which governs least."	Thomas Jefferson
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."	Aristotle
"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were."	John F. Kennedy
"Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed."	GK Chesterton
"A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done."	Fred Allen
"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
"The history of liberty is a history of limitation of government power, not the increase of it."	Woodrow Wilson
"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."	Thomas Jefferson
"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
"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
"Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God."	GK Chesterton
"The great principle which this house ought to guard and cherish is that, when the tax collector comes to the private citizen and takes from him of his wealth for the services of the public, the whole of that money taken shall go for the purposes for which it is intended, and that no private interests, however powerfully they may be organized and however eloquently advocated, shall thrust their dirty fingers into the pie and take the profits for themselves."	Winston Churchill
"A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives."	James Madison
"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
"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint."	Alexander Hamilton
"Where there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned."	Herbert Hoover
"Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself."	Ronald Reagan
"We've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of government himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?"	Ronald Reagan

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