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"If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government --and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws."	Edward Abbey
"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern."	Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."	John Quincy Adams
"This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs."	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."	Aristotle
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."	Aristotle
"Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking."	Clement Attlee
"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."	Wystan Hugh Auden
"A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67."	Norman R. Augustine
"Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat."	Sri da Avabhas
"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."	Sir Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order."	Sir Francis Bacon
"So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy."	Roger Nash Baldwin
"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. the most terrifying thing is what people do want."	Clive Alexander Barnes
"The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful."	Mary Catherine Bateson
"Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians."	Claire Huchet Bishop
"Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery."	Prince Otto
"Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy."	Irish Blessing
"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."	William Edgar Borah
"Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow."	Elias Boudinot
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Marquis de Sade	Mary Catherine Bateson	Miguel de Cervantes
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev	Nadia Boulanger	Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev
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