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• There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and family.
  But he can't make a living for them *and* his government, too, the way his government is living....
• Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself.
  Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?...
• Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself.
  Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?" -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)...
• Homer raises his arms one at a time in front of a fan] [Carl and Lenny hold hankies to their noses and cough] Carl
  [gagging] Homer, you should see a doctor -- I don't think a healthy man can make that kind of smell....
• A man must first govern himself ere he be fit to govern a family, and his family ere he be fit to bear the government in the commonwealth.
  -- Sir Walter Raleigh...
• If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
  -- The Best of Will Roge...
• Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
  -- Albert Schweitze...
• The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with the power to endanger the public liberty.
  -- John Adams (1772)...
• On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
  -- The Best of Will Roge...