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"Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions."
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"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."

"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."

"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."

"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."

"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."

"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."

"Government is a ruling structured thuggery."

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."

"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
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"In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character."

"The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team."

"People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government."

"No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'."

"One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are."

"Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent."

"Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?"

"In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it."

"Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?"

"As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society."
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