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A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
Government
James Reston

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A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Government
Abraham Lincoln

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A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Government
Barry Goldwater

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A man without a vote is man without protection.
Government
Lyndon B. Johnson

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All good government must begin at home.
Government
H. R. Haweis

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An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.
Government
Sir Henry Wotton

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An educated people can be easily governed.
Government
(Frederick II) Frederick The Great

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Any cook should be able to run the country.
Government
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Government
Will Rogers

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Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.
Government
Joy Baluch

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Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.
Government
Gerhard Kocher

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Government
Honore De Balzac

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But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.
Government
Basil Bunting

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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Government
Albert Camus

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Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.
Government
Gerhard Kocher

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
Government
Alexander Hamilton

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Every country has the government it deserves.
Government
Joseph De Maistre

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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles.
Government
William J. Durant

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Fear is the foundation of most government.
Government
John Adams

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For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.
Government
Alexander Pope

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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
Government
P. J. O'Rourke

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
Government
John Jay Chapman

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
Government
Ronald Reagan

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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
Government
John Locke

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
Government
Voltaire

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun