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The essence of good government is trust.
~ Kathleen Sebelius

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
~ Benjamin Franklin

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
~ Winston Churchill

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
~ William Penn

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
~ Larry Flynt

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
~ Thomas Paine

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
~ Lily Tomlin

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
~ Henry Clay

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
~ Will Rogers

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
~ Cullen Hightower

That government is best which governs least.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.
~ Dirk Kempthorne

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
~ Fred Woodworth

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
~ George Washington

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
~ Thomas Paine

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
~ William E. Gladstone

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
~ Alexander Woollcott

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
~ Denis Diderot

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
~ Will Rogers

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
~ Louis D. Brandeis

A government of laws, and not of men.
~ Author Unknown

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.
~ Robert Half

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History is the lie commonly agreed upon.
~ Voltaire

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
~ Charles F. Kettering

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln
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