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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
 Nothing's more dull and negligent
 Than an old, lazy government,
  That knows no interest of state,
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 Nothing's more dull and negligent
 Than an old, lazy government,
  That knows no interest of state,
   But such as serves a present strait. 
I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.
I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in read more
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one read more
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 others that have been tried from time to time.
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work read more
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
 Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty 
universe.  
 Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty 
universe. 
Far more important to me is, that I should be loyal to what I regard as the law of my read more
Far more important to me is, that I should be loyal to what I regard as the law of my political life, which is this: a belief that that country is best governed, which is least governed ...
You can't run a government solely on a business basis ... Government should be human. It should have a heart.
You can't run a government solely on a business basis ... Government should be human. It should have a heart.