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- Abraham Lincoln99◆ The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
- Milton Friedman99◆ The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson99◆ Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
- Ronald Reagan99◆ We have the best government that money can buy.
- Mark Twain99◆ If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.
- Ron Paul99◆ Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
- Mark Twain99◆ Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
- Albert Einstein99◆ The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
- Woodrow Wilson99◆ Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
- Louis D. Brandeis99◆ Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
- Ayn Rand99◆ How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
- Charles de Gaulle99◆ In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
- Saint Augustine99◆ Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
- Thomas Jefferson99◆ The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
- George Washington99
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