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“Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.”

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Author:Dick Armey

“Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.”

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Author:Charles de Gaulle

“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.”

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Author:William E. Gladstone

“Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.”

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Author:Warren Beatty

“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.”

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Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.”

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.”

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Author:Nikita Khrushchev

“Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.”

“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”