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Quote DB :: Government Search in this category Democracy (27) Laws (12) Voting (8) Sponsored Links Quote Author Rating Rate "The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." Patrick Henry "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." Patrick Henry "I didn't come to Washington to be loved and I haven't been disappointed." Philip L. Gramm "The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away." Ronald Reagan "Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets." Ronald Reagan "Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?" Ronald Reagan "No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size." Ronald Reagan "A government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth." Ronald Reagan "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 "As government expands, liberty contracts." Ronald Reagan "Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself." Ronald Reagan "I think the best possible social program is a job." Ronald Reagan "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." Ronald Reagan "Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector." Ronald Reagan "Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem." Ronald Reagan "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 us has the capacity to govern someone else?" Ronald Reagan "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." Samuel Adams "The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes." Stanley Kubrick "From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?" Thomas Paine "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." Thomas Paine << Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next >> Browse Government quotes by Author: Abraham Lincoln Adam Smith Adolf Hitler Alexander Hamilton Alexis de Tocqueville Aristotle Author Unknown Benjamin Franklin Bertrand Russell Bill Clinton Calvin Coolidge Carl Jung Charles de Gaulle Confucius Daniel Webster Dave Barry Dwight Eisenhower Elbert Hubbard Frank Zappa Fred Allen Frederick Engels George Bernard Shaw George Carlin George Washington GK Chesterton Henry Mencken Herbert Hoover Hermann Goering H.G. Wells Hillary Clinton James Garfield James Madison John Adams John F. Kennedy Margaret Thatcher Nachman of Bratslav Napoleon Bonaparte Nicolo Machiavelli Patrick Henry Philip L. Gramm P.J. O'Rourke Ronald Reagan Samuel Adams Stanley Kubrick Thomas Jefferson Thomas Paine Thomas Sowell Victor Hugo Will Rogers William F. Buckley Winston Churchill Woodrow Wilson

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