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All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65997<![CDATA[No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65359<![CDATA[I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65080<![CDATA[Good government is no substitute for self-government. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18058<![CDATA[My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18059<![CDATA[The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18060<![CDATA[Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18061<![CDATA[Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18062<![CDATA[The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18063<![CDATA[It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18064<![CDATA[If men were angels, no government would be necessary. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18065<![CDATA[Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18066<![CDATA[Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18067<![CDATA[Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18068<![CDATA[Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18069<![CDATA[You have the God-given right to kick the government around--don't hesitate to do so. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18051<![CDATA[Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18052<![CDATA[The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18053<![CDATA[The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18054<![CDATA[Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18055<![CDATA[In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18056<![CDATA[Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18057<![CDATA[Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18035<![CDATA[A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18036<![CDATA[Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18037<![CDATA[The government is us; we are the government, you and I. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18038<![CDATA[Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18039<![CDATA[A camel is a horse designed by committee. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18041<![CDATA[Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18042<![CDATA[Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18043<![CDATA[Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18044<![CDATA[Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18045<![CDATA[Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18046<![CDATA[Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18047<![CDATA[Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18048<![CDATA[The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18049<![CDATA[In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18050<![CDATA[The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18027<![CDATA[All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18028<![CDATA[A goverment that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18029<![CDATA[Government is a kind of legalized pillage. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18030<![CDATA[That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18031<![CDATA[Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18032<![CDATA[You can't run a government solely on a business basis ... Government should be human. It should have a heart. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18033<![CDATA[Every country has the government it deserves. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18034<![CDATA[The true art of government consists in not governing too much. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18013<![CDATA[Franklin Roosevelt stands like a sharply formed rock in a shapeless sea. spoken on Book TV by a Jackson biographer. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18015<![CDATA[Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18016<![CDATA[Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18017<![CDATA[Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18018