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A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
Thomas Jefferson

Good, Men, Wise

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

Best, Democracy, Against

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Thomas Jefferson

Hope, Strength, Country

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington

Fire, Reason, Dangerous

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine

Best, Evil, State

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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln

Good, Enough, Another

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

Life, Give, Living

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
Ayn Rand

Business, Help, Service

We have the best government that money can buy.
Mark Twain

Money, Best, Buy

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Thomas Jefferson

Alone, Themselves, Safe

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson

Truth, Alone, Support

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
Thomas Jefferson

Whenever, Trusted

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
George Washington

Women, Men, History

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan

Best, Business, Away

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O'Rourke

Money, Power, Car

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison

Power, Knowledge, Ignorance

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin

Laws, Gentle, Seldom

That government is best which governs least.
Henry David Thoreau

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
Paul Harvey

Progress, Opposite, Con

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Will Rogers

Happen, Both, House

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
Woodrow Wilson

Democracy, Special, Hands

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
Otto von Bismarck

Made, Laws, Sausages

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Andrew Jackson

Selfish, Powerful, Rich

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
Milton Friedman

History, Free, Far

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Milton Friedman

Bad, Problem, Solution

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