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Government Quotes

"The best minds are not in government If any were business would steal them away"

"The bigger concern may be that now we have a rapidly growing economy and ample capital, but a failure of the government and society, to allocate it properly."

"Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse."

"We do not talk to terrorists, we destroy them."

"The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms"

"If men were angels no government would be necessary"

"Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."

"The government is us; we are the government, you and I."

"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure"

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty"

"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse"

"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither."

"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man."

"War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to sustain its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits. "

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