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"How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?"	Charles de Gaulle
"An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger."	Confucius
"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy."	Daniel Webster
"There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."	Daniel Webster
"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions."	Daniel Webster
"Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government."	Daniel Webster
"The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power."	Daniel Webster
"Congress, after years of stalling, finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tentative agreements..."	Dave Barry
"In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes."	Dwight Eisenhower
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."	Dwight Eisenhower
"Every step we take towards making the State our Caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our Master."	Dwight Eisenhower
"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs."	Elbert Hubbard
"The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work."	Frank Zappa
"A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done."	Fred Allen
"The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Workers of all countries...unite!"	Frederick Engels
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."	George Washington
"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."	George Washington
"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."	George Carlin
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."	George Bernard Shaw
"Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God."	GK Chesterton

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