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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

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It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. ↗

— George MacDonald

#best #elected #govern #men #nature

What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work. ↗

— Peter MacKay

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I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

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It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#falter #flap #government #her #majesty

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#broken #drink #eat #galling #government

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. ↗

— James Madison

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Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. ↗

— James Madison

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The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. ↗

— James Madison

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