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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it is the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.