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A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
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James Reston
James Reston books
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A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln books
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A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
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Barry Goldwater
Barry Goldwater books
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A man without a vote is man without protection.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson books
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All good government must begin at home.
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H. R. Haweis
H. R. Haweis books
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An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.
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Sir Henry Wotton
Sir Henry Wotton books
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An educated people can be easily governed.
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(Frederick II) Frederick The Great
(Frederick II) Frederick The Great books
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Any cook should be able to run the country.
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin books
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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
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Will Rogers
Will Rogers books
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Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.
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Joy Baluch
Joy Baluch books
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Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.
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Gerhard Kocher
Gerhard Kocher books
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
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Honore De Balzac
Honore De Balzac books
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But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
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Basil Bunting
Basil Bunting books
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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus books
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Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.
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Gerhard Kocher
Gerhard Kocher books
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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
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Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton books
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Every country has the government it deserves.
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Joseph De Maistre
Joseph De Maistre books
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.
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William J. Durant
William J. Durant books
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Fear is the foundation of most government.
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John Adams
John Adams books
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69 votes
For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
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Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope books
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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P. J. O'Rourke
P. J. O'Rourke books
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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
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John Jay Chapman
John Jay Chapman books
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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan books
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60 votes
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
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John Locke
John Locke books
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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
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Voltaire
Voltaire books
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41 votes
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman books
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Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan books
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54 votes
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
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Will Rogers
Will Rogers books
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I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson books
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
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John Updike
John Updike books
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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
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Voltaire
Voltaire books
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It is easy to rule over the good.
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Titus Maccius Plautus
Titus Maccius Plautus books
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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
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Murray Kempton
Murray Kempton books
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It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
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William E. Gladstone
William E. Gladstone books
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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt books
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne books
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Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte books
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Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
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George Washington
George Washington books
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson books
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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.
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Cornelius Nepos
Cornelius Nepos books
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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
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David Hume
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke books
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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
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John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles books
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Office without pay makes thieves.
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German Proverb
German Proverb books
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Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.
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Maury Amsterdam
Maury Amsterdam books
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Public instruction should be the first object of government.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte books
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Safety of the state is the highest law.
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Justinian
Justinian books
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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
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Solon
Solon books
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That government is best which governs least.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau books
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That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson books
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