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Government is an evil it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
George Washington
If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
Gary Hart
When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
Marquis de Lafayette
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain
The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see it, but I foresee it.
Lord (George Gordon) Byron
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
Abraham Lincoln
If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
P. J. O'Rourke
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Milton Friedman
The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
Dalai Lama
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Adrian Cronauer
People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours.
Margaret Thatcher, interview (pu
The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
Alice Walker
The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
David Mamet
Fear is the foundation of most government.
John Adams
Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
George Bernard Shaw
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
George Will
