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“The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.”
Mark Twain
“Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?”
Abraham Lincoln
“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”
Will Smith
“A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences”
Thomas Jefferson
“Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it”
Ronald Reagan
“Good government is no substitute for self-government”
Mahatma Gandhi
“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
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”
“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”
“A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
