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“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”
Mark Twain
“Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.”
Albert Einstein
“We have the best government that money can buy.”
“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.”
Voltaire
“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.”
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”
Patrick Henry
“The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.”
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”
Abraham Lincoln
