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"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it."
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"But as important as the job to be done by government in the neighborhoods, the people must also be involved."

"The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie."

"I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990."

"The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals."

"If for no other reason than the energy crisis now facing this country, the federal government should be eager to become partners with us in rebuilding our city."

"The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage."

"Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom."

"If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds."

"Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts."

"Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government."
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"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."

"The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law."

"I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts."

"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history."

"We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength,"

"From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard."
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