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Government Quotes

"Freedom is the very essence of our democracy"

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

"A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar"

"Political chaos is connected with the decay of language."

"If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you"

"Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it"

"I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting"

"Every step we take towards making the state the caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the state our master."

"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"

"Inflation is taxation without legislation."

"It is essential to the happiness of a nation that it should have an efficient and dignified system of justice."

"In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought by the military-industrial complex"

"Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one"

"You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think"

"We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it"

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