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A difficulty for every solution.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another but above all try something.

Whenever by an unfortunate occurrence of circumstances an opposition is compelled to support the government the support should be given with a kick and not a caress and should be withdrawn at the first available moment.

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of governing.

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom whilst a republic is a raft which will never sink but then your feet are always in water.

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute new government laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

China has no income tax no unemployed and not a single soldier outside its own territory.

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

The majority is the best way because it is visible and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

The average man that I encounter all over the country regards government as a sort of great milk cow with its head in the clouds eating air and growing a full teat for everybody on earth.

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

I would rather be governed by the first three hundred names in the Boston telephone book than by the Faculty of Harvard University.

The State that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees.

Bureaucracy the rule of no one has become the modern form of despotism.

The entire civil service is like a fortress made of papers forms and red tape.