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158 quotesA patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Patriotism
Edward Abbey
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
Society
Lord Acton
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A government of laws and not of men.
Uncategorised
John Adams
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Fear is the foundation of most government.
Government
John Adams
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The happiness of society is the end of government.
Society
John Adams
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Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.
Government
Joy Baluch
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The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
Government
Henry Ward Beecher
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
Taxes and Taxation
Bernard Berenson
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Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Ambrose Bierce
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Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.
Management
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Public instruction should be the first object of government.
Government
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The art of government is not to let me grow stale.
Government
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The human race is governed by its imagination.
Imagination
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.
Government
Count Boytzwnburg
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The government is becoming the family of last resort.
Family
Jerry Brown
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America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
America
John Mason Brown
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The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
Democracy
William F. Buckley
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In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.
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Edmund Burke
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Government
Edmund Burke
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If you are to stand up for your Government you must be able to stand up to your Government.
Diplomacy
Lord Harold Caccia
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We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.
Ideas
Mona Caird
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The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away
Government
John S. Caldwell
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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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The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
Bed
Angela Carter
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
Nations
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun