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The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

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

Government is a kind of legalized pillage.

That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves.

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.

You can't run a government solely on a business basis ... Government should be human. It should have a heart.

Every country has the government it deserves.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

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

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.