"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for."

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"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."

Anthony Trollope, English Author

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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."

Will Durant, American Historian

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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."

Jimmy Carter, American President

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"I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."

Barack Obama, American President

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"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

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"There shall be no end to the government of God."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."

Woody Allen, American Director

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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."

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"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."

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"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."

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"When you put down the good things you ought to have done and leave out the bad things you did do - well that's memoirs."

Writing, Truth, Memory, Selective

"Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do."

People, Man, Vote

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."

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"Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there."

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"I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything."

"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."

"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."

"I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."

"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written."

"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."

"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."

"There shall be no end to the government of God."

"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."

"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."

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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."

"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."

"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."

"When you put down the good things you ought to have done and leave out the bad things you did do - well that's memoirs."

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."

"Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction."

"Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff."

"Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do."

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."

"Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there."