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To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.
~ Richard Henry Lee
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
~ Henry David Thoreau
BJP is not going to the people only to form a government. We have come to the people to give stability and a development oriented government.
~ Narendra Modi
There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.
~ William Vickrey
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.
~ James Madison
I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.
~ Grover Norquist
In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.
~ Joe Baca
The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
~ Walter Bagehot
The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
~ Nigel Farage
Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
~ Barbara Mikulski
Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap is not in the offices of the Government in Washington but in the studios of the networks in New York!
~ Spiro T. Agnew
I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.
~ Bruce Willis
I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.
~ Ibrahim Hooper
Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!
~ Malcolm X
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
~ Ludwig von Mises
But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people.
~ Stephen Harper
Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."
~ Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world.
~ Ted Olson
The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control.
~ Millard Fillmore
Whether Canada ends up as o­ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion...
~ Stephen Harper
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
~ Thomas Paine