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The government is like chicken pox, you try to get away from it but it always catches you.

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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
– Winston Churchill

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Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
– Ronald Reagan

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Every nation has the government it deserves.

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Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.
– Ronald Reagan

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It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
– Abraham Lincoln

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The best argument against democracy is a five- minute conversation with the average voter.
– Winston Churchill

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Governments have a tendency not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
– Ronald Reagan

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What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.
– Adolf Hitler

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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always rely on the support of Paul.
– George Bernard Shaw

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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

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

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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

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The mightiest of weapons is truth. And everyone knows you’re not permitted to enter a government building with a weapon.

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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
– James Russell Lowell

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There is good government when those who are near are made happy, and when those who are afar are attracted.
– Confucius

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Beware the greedy hand of government, thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
– Thomas Paine

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… the keynote of government is injustice.

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

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We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
– William Howard Taft

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