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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

That government is best which governs least.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.