“Onde os homens se persuadem que os governos os devem fazer felizes, e não eles a si próprios, não há governo que os possa contentar nem agradar-lhes.”
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In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we don't make government responsive to the people, we don't make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy.
Discurso em Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida (16 de dezembro de 1971); publicado em Gerald R. Ford, Selected Speeches (Falas selecionadas) (1973) editado por Michael V. Doyle

it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin - Volume 2, Página 100 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=aSQ-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA100, Thomas Jefferson - J. C. Riker, 1853

Aécio Neves, em entrevista a Revista Carta Capital em 4 novembro de 2009
Fonte Carta Capital http://www.cartacapital.com.br/app/materia.jsp?a=2&a2=8&i=5375

Le Socialisme, comme la vieille politique d’où il émane, confond le Gouvernement et la Société. C’est pourquoi, chaque fois que nous ne voulons pas qu’une chose soit faite par le Gouvernement, il en conclut que nous ne voulons pas que cette chose soit faite du tout.
Œuvres complètes de Frédéric Bastiat: mises en ordre - Volume 4, páginas 362-363 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=Vrs5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA362, Frédéric Bastiat - Guillaumin et Cie, 1854