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Patriotism is not obedience to government. Patriotism is obedience to the principals for which government is supposed to stand.
Howard Zinn
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
George Washington
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
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
Thomas Jefferson
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke
The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
James Madison
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert H. Humphrey
I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.
Woody Allen
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann von Goethe
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Ayn Rand
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
Joe Biden
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Ansel Adams
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Will Rogers
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
