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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the GOVERNMENT to the utmost.	Aristotle
In our civilization, and under our republican form of GOVERNMENT, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.	Ambrose Bierce
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of GOVERNMENT except all the others that have been tried.	Winston Churchill
It is dangerous to be right when the GOVERNMENT is wrong.	Voltaire
Many forms of GOVERNMENT have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of GOVERNMENT except all those other forms that have	Winston Churchill
No GOVERNMENT can be long secure without formidable opposition.	Benjamin Disraeli
No GOVERNMENT ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.	Thomas Jefferson
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a GOVERNMENT four years, no matter what it does.	Will Rogers
That GOVERNMENT is the best, which governs the best. Mahtama Gandhi GOVERNMENTs exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection– they have many friends and few enemies.	Wendell Phillips
The business of GOVERNMENT is to keep the GOVERNMENT out of business that is, unless business needs GOVERNMENT aid.	Will Rogers
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the GOVERNMENT had not sometimes got in its way.	Henry David Thoreau
The deterioration of every GOVERNMENT begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.	Charles Luisde Secondat
The GOVERNMENT consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of GOVERNMENT; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.	H. L. Mencken
The GOVERNMENT is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5'7", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.	Woody Allen
The very essence of a free GOVERNMENT consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.	Calhoun