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"Your government is no longer mine."
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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."

"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."

"The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power."

"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."

"The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God."

"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."

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

"The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry."
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"War drags human beings from their tasks of building and improving, and pushes them en masse into the category of destroyers and killers."
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