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government

Henry Mencken
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
Every government is a scoundrel.
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.
John F. Kennedy
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.
Julius Nyerere
The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.
Margaret Thatcher
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Nicolo Machiavelli
Government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do it harm.
Patrick Henry
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
Philip L. Gramm
I didn't come to Washington to be loved and I haven't been disappointed.
Ronald Reagan
Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?
The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.
I think the best possible social program is a job.
Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.
A government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth.
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
Samuel Adams
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.
Stanley Kubrick
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
Thomas Jefferson
A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt...If the game runs sometime against us at home, we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake.