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When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.

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

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.

It is not tyranny we desire it is a just, limited, federal government.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it is the government.