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"History, in general, only informs us what bad government is."	Thomas Jefferson
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."	Will Rogers
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all."	Thomas Jefferson
"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."	Winston Churchill
"I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time."	Henry Mencken
"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size."	Ronald Reagan
"As government expands, liberty contracts."	Ronald Reagan
"To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches."	Margaret Thatcher
"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away."	Ronald Reagan
"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure."	Bertrand Russell
"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object."	Thomas Jefferson
"Congress, after years of stalling, finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tentative agreements..."	Dave Barry
"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."	Stanley Kubrick
"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."	George Washington
"An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger."	Confucius
"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."	Benjamin Franklin
"Socialism: An attempt to curb the destructive power of monopolies by creating the biggest one of all."	Author Unknown
"The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power."	Daniel Webster
"A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them."	P.J. O'Rourke
"The statesman who would attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himeslf with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it."	Adam Smith

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