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82 quotes (Page 2 of 4 pages)Governments never learn. Only people learn.
Government
Milton Friedman
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Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Government
Ronald Reagan
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Government
Will Rogers
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I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office
Government
Thomas Jefferson
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
Government
John Updike
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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Government
Voltaire
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It is easy to rule over the good.
Government
Titus Maccius Plautus
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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
Government
Murray Kempton
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It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
Government
William E. Gladstone
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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Government
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
Government
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.
Government
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
Government
George Washington
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Government
Thomas Jefferson
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No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.
Government
Cornelius Nepos
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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
Government
David Hume
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Government
Edmund Burke
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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
Government
John Foster Dulles
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Office without pay makes thieves.
Government
German Proverb
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Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.
Government
Maury Amsterdam
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Public instruction should be the first object of government.
Government
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Safety of the state is the highest law.
Government
Justinian
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Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
Government
Solon
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That government is best which governs least.
Government
Henry David Thoreau
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That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
Government
Thomas Jefferson
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[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun