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"To govern is always to choose among disadvantages."	General Charles De Gaulle
"We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves."	Marquis de Sade
"There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots -- suspicion."	Demosthenes
"Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery."	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military."	William Orville Douglas
"Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, Trust me, they're actually being very un-American."	David Duchovny
"As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to protect Jewish lives."	Albert Einstein
"People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments."	Dwight David Eisenhower
"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."	Dwight David Eisenhower
"The less government we have the better."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen."	Sam(uel) James Ervin, Jr.
"The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect."	Sam Ewing
"We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it."	George Farquhar
"Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men."	Gerald R. Ford
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."	Gerald R. Ford
"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody."	Benjamin Franklin
"The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."	Robert Lee Frost
"The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on [them]."	J(ames) William Fulbright
"All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people."	James Abram Garfield
"All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people."	James Abram Garfield
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