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• 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....
• The chief aim of their constitution and government is tha
  whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind....
• No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent to.
  It is by dividing and subdividing these republics from the national one down through all its subordinations, until it ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself...
• What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
  If men were angels, no government would be necessary. -- Thomas Jefferso...
• Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
  -- Winston Churchill...
• Anarchy may not be the best form of government, but it's better than no government at all.