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Topics: Government
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force.
By George Washington      View Famous Quote
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
By Otto Von Bismark      View Famous Quote
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Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.
By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe      View Famous Quote
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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
By William Penn      View Famous Quote
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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
By Will Rogers      View Famous Quote
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That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
By Thomas Jefferson      View Famous Quote
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Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
By Harry S. Truman      View Famous Quote
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The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
By Gerald R. Ford      View Famous Quote
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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
By Milton Friedman      View Famous Quote
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You have the God-given right to kick the government around--don't hesitate to do so.
By Edmund Muske      View Famous Quote
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Good government is no substitute for self-government.
By Mahatma Gandhi      View Famous Quote
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A goverment that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
By Barry Goldwater      View Famous Quote
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Government is a kind of legalized pillage.
By Elbert Hubbard      View Famous Quote
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You can't run a government solely on a business basis ... Government should be human. It should have a heart.
By Herbert Henry Lehman      View Famous Quote
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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
By Abraham Lincoln      View Famous Quote
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Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
By Adlai E. Stevenson      View Famous Quote
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That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves.
By Thomas Jefferson      View Famous Quote
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Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.
By Bernard Berenson      View Famous Quote
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
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He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich that they in turn may care for the laboring poor.
By Grover Cleveland      View Famous Quote
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Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
By Lily Tomlin      View Famous Quote
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
By Gore Vidal      View Famous Quote
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The point to remember is that what the Government gives it must first take away.
By John Caldwell      View Famous Quote
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Far more important to me is, that I should be loyal to what I regard as the law of my political life, which is this: a belief that that country is best governed, which is least governed ...
By George Hoadly      View Famous Quote
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Every country has the government it deserves.
By Joseph De Maistre      View Famous Quote
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
By Thomas Paine      View Famous Quote
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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
By Theodore Roosevelt      View Famous Quote
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My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.
By John Fitzgerald Kennedy      View Famous Quote
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The government is becoming the family of last resort.
By Jerry Brown      View Famous Quote
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The law is [sic] a ass - a idiot.
By Charles Dickens      View Famous Quote
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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
By James A. Garfield      View Famous Quote
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A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter.
By George Greenville      View Famous Quote
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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.
By Lyndon B. Johnson      View Famous Quote
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The true art of government consists in not governing too much.
By Jonathan Shipley      View Famous Quote
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The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
By Napoleon Bonaparte      View Famous Quote
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Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
By Abraham Lincoln      View Famous Quote
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A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
By James Reston      View Famous Quote
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
By George Washington      View Famous Quote
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The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.
By James F. Byrnes      View Famous Quote
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The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men.
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