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And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.

Nothing's more dull and negligent Than an old, lazy government, That knows no interest of state, But such as serves a present strait.

A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust.

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.

A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Which government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the industrious.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.