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“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
Voltaire
“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.”
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...”
“We have the best government that money can buy.”
Mark Twain
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”
Abraham Lincoln
“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”
“Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.”
“Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.”
Albert Einstein
“The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.”
“Good government is no substitute for self-government”
Mahatma Gandhi