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“The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.”
―Cynthia McKinney

“Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.”
―Woodrow Wilson

Source/Notes:
Speech, New York, September 9, 1912

“A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government.”
―John Jay Hooker

“Every country has the government it deserves.”
―Joseph de Maistre

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

“Unlimited enmity of the Albanian people against Serbia is the foremost real result of the Albanian policies of the Serbian government. The second and more dangerous result is the strengthening of two big powers in Albania, which have the greatest interests in the Balkans.”
―Dimitrije Tucović

Source/Notes:
Review of Serbia and Albania by Dimitrije Tucovic

“Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”
―Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougeism as this?”
―Abraham Lincoln

“As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.”
―Hillary Clinton

Source/Notes:
"Remarks of Hillary Clinton on Internet Freedom", January 21, 2010

“Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free from any suspicion of improper action on partisan or factional grounds, so that there shall be gradually a growth, even though a slow growth, in the knowledge that the Federal courts and the representatives of the Federal Department of Justice insist on meting out even-handed justice to all.”
―Theodore Roosevelt

“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”
―Joseph Goebbels

“Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.”
―Grover Norquist

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