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"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
"Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?"	Ronald Reagan
"The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform."	Alexis de Tocqueville
"Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets."	Ronald Reagan
"Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector."	Ronald Reagan
"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 safetly 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
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."	Henry Mencken
"To those new States whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny."	John F. Kennedy
"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
"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office."	Henry Mencken
"How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?"	Charles de Gaulle
"The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Workers of all countries...unite!"	Frederick Engels
"A government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth."	Ronald Reagan
"The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry."	H.G. Wells
"The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work."	Frank Zappa
"No government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family's care."	Hillary Clinton
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely."	Napoleon Bonaparte
"The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense."	Bill Clinton
"Today we can declare: Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We, the American people, we are the solution."	Bill Clinton
"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

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