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And gradually they are beginning to recognize the fact that there is nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it is sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it is where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we are some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It is a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

We believe, as our founders did, that the pursuit of happiness depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government.

Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if facts are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.

And I keep saying, whether you like the president or not, everybody has to pull together and help the president because, as the president goes, so goes the country, as the country goes, so goes your job, your ability to feed your family, your government.

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.