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“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
“Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”
Ronald Reagan
“We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent.”
Paul Warburg
“I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.”
“We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.”
Richard M. Nixon
“Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.”
“Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people”
Abraham Lincoln
“It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.”
Winston Churchill