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“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going”
George Bernard Shaw
“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”
Ronald Reagan
“Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.”
“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.”
Thomas Jefferson
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”
Edward Abbey
“Man is not free unless government is limited.”
“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter”
“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”
Winston Churchill