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"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
Voltaire on Government
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"The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin."
Steinem, Gloria on Body
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"The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor."
Humphrey, Hubert H. on Neighbors
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"I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone."
Updike, John on Government
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"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
Jefferson, Thomas on Truth
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"A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Lincoln, Abraham on Government
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"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."
Thoreau, Henry David on Prison
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"Every country has the government it deserves."
Maistre, Joseph De on Government
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"The less government we have the better."
Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Government
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"The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government."
Beecher, Henry Ward on Government
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"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Government
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"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern."
Acton, Lord on Society
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Wilde, Oscar on Anarchism
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Plato on Government
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"There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey."
Forster, William Edward on Obedience
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