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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. - Mark Twain

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. Mark Twain

Memorial Day, Country

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. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Country, Over, Voters

Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent - a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice - that struggle continues. Bernie Sanders

Racial, Percent, Represents

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

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

Argument, Against, Average

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. - Ronald Reagan

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. Ronald Reagan

Duty, Run, Lives

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. Thomas Jefferson

Life, Good, Good Government

You don't pay taxes - they take taxes. Chris Rock

Taxes, Take, Pay

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. - Abraham Lincoln

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. Abraham Lincoln

Perish, For The People

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. - Albert Einstein

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. Albert Einstein

Disease, Mankind, Infantile

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. P. J. O'Rourke

Mystery, How, Works

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We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment camps here in the United States. The term 'Japanese internment camp' is both grammatically and factually incorrect. George Takei

Here, United States

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money. - Margaret Thatcher

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money. Margaret Thatcher

Money, Problem, Other

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost. Barack Obama

Trust, Which, Them

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. Donald Trump

Politics, Go, Disgrace

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

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

Car, Money, Like

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. George Bernard Shaw

Election, Corrupt

I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens. Donald Trump

Injustice, Leaders, Before

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. Tom Clancy

Knowledge, Control, Always

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament. Vladimir Lenin

Decide, Which, Allowed

Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men. B. R. Ambedkar

Living, Towards, Reverence

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: 'Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?' If you don't ask those questions, your governance will not be good. Pope Francis

Love, Humble, Everybody

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. James Madison

Necessary, Would, Were

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, Too

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. Thomas Jefferson

Bill Of Rights, Entitled

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. Milton Friedman

Politics, Put, Charge

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. Ronald Reagan

Tax, Could, Regulate

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