“The Indian government has not shot itself in the foot. Most likely it has shot itself in the head, ... By conducting five nuclear tests India made a major miscalculation not merely about the United States but about India's own capability. The Indian government has deluded itself into the absurd assumption that the possession of nuclear weapons will make India into a superpower at a time when hundreds of millions of India's people are in abject poverty.”
Jesse Helms
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...”
“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.”
“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny”
“We must not look to government to solve our problems. Government is the problem.”
Ronald Reagan
