"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."

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

Voltaire, French Writer

Government, Assassination, Democracy

"We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

Government, People

"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."

Jeremy Bentham, English Philosopher

Government, Power, Religion, Belief

"Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government."

Alexander Hamilton, American Politician

Government, Neutrality

"Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it."

Gerry Spence, American Lawyer

Government, Idea, Living, Nothing

"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

Government, Democracy, Parliament, Trouble

"The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush."

John Spratt, American Politician

Government, Country, President, Right

"Our government shouldn't tell us where to travel and where not to travel."

Jeff Flake, American Politician

Government, Travel

"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

Government, Society, People, Building

"Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship."

Mark Steyn, Canadian Writer

Government, Health, Care, Citizenship

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"The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."

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"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."

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"Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco."

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"The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time."

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

"We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government."

"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."

"Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government."

"Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it."

"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."

"The young in this country, and you fellows are young by my reckoning, have a right to be concerned about the course that our government, the Federal Government, is taking under President Bush."

"Our government shouldn't tell us where to travel and where not to travel."

"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."

"Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship."

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"The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."

"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."

"Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco."

"Free trade is not based on utility but on justice."

"One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good."

"To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely."

"You can never plan the future by the past."

"The march of the human mind is slow."

"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."

"The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time."