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Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
Government
Theodore Roosevelt

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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Freedom
Bertrand Russell

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A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Taxes and Taxation
George Bernard Shaw

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The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
Debt
George Bernard Shaw

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Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
Lies and Lying
I. F. Stone

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We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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William Howard Taft

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That government is best which governs least.
Government
Henry David Thoreau

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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Prison
Henry David Thoreau

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The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
Reform
Alexis De Tocqueville

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Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.
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Harry S Truman

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Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
Government
Harry S Truman

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We have the best government that money can buy.
Government
Mark Twain

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Never forget public ignorance is the government's best friend.
Ignorance
Source Unknown

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No matter whom you vote for, the Government always gets in.
Voting
Source Unknown

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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
Government
John Updike

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
Government
Voltaire

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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Government
Voltaire

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Government
Voltaire

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Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
Government
George Washington

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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
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Daniel Webster

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For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
Action
Bob Wells

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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.
Republican
Oscar Wilde

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America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.
Democracy
Woodrow T. Wilson

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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
Democracy
Woodrow T. Wilson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun