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Inspirational Quotes about Government
Lord Acton quotes
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. Rating:
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Saint Augustine quotes
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? Rating:
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Henry Ward Beecher quotes
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. Rating:
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Otto von Bismarck quotes
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made. Rating:
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Jorge Luis Borges quotes
Democracy is an abuse of statistics. Rating:
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Louis D. Brandeis quotes
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. Rating:
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Winston Churchill quotes
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Rating:
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Winston Churchill quotes
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time. Rating:
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Winston Churchill quotes
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Rating:
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Denis Diderot quotes
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. Rating:
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Larry Flynt quotes
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper. Rating:
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Benjamin Franklin quotes
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. Rating:
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Milton Friedman quotes
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. Rating:
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John Kenneth Galbraith quotes
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. Rating:
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John W. Gardner quotes
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. Rating:
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William E. Gladstone quotes
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. Rating:
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes
To rule is easy, to govern difficult. Rating:
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Barry Goldwater quotes
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. Rating:
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Sydney J. Harris quotes
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. Rating:
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Cullen Hightower quotes
Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it. Rating:
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Cullen Hightower quotes
The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them. Rating:
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Thomas Jefferson quotes
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. Rating:
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Thomas Jefferson quotes
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Rating:
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Richard Lamm quotes
Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it. Rating:
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Abraham Lincoln quotes
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. Rating:
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James Russell Lowell quotes
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. Rating:
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James Madison quotes
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. Rating:
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James Madison quotes
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. Rating:
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Karl Marx quotes
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. Rating:
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H. L. Mencken quotes
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. Rating:
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Lewis Mumford quotes
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. Rating:
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P. J. O'Rourke quotes
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. Rating:
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P. J. O'Rourke quotes
Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us. Rating:
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Robert Orben quotes
Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down. Rating:
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Thomas Paine quotes
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. Rating:
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Thomas Paine quotes
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. Rating:
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Thomas Paine quotes
That government is best which governs least. Rating:
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William Penn quotes
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. Rating:
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Wendell Phillips quotes
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. Rating:
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