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"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it."	Nadia Boulanger
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."	Louis Dembitz Brandeis
"In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action."	Louis Dembitz Brandeis
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."	Louis Dembitz Brandeis
"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."	Henry Peter Brougham
"All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter."	Edmund Burke
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, [including] the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions."	Edmund Burke
"The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity."	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
"You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne."	Miguel de Cervantes
"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."	William Ellery Channing
"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government."	Madame Chiang
"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present."	Tao Le Ching
"Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist; that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be establishedat every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy."	Noam Chomsky
"You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year."	William Jefferson Clinton
"In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who 'come out' together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude."	Charles Caleb Colton
"[Congress is] functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority."	Barber B. Conable, Jr
"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose."	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo
"I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came."	Jefferson Davis
"How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese?"	General Charles De Gaulle
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