Government Quotes
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That government is best which governs least.
Thomas Paine
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It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
John W. Gardner
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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan
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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
William Penn
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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
Wendell Phillips
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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine
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Washington is a place where politicians don`t know which way is up and taxes don`t know which way is down.
Robert Orben
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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine
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A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Barry Goldwater
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There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.
Senator John Kerry
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Our government has a simple task: recognize our nation’s real problems, and address them in a manner that reflects the priorities of the American people. It sounds simple, but it’s not happening today, and I know you’re as frustrated with Washington...
Senator John Kerry
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There is a direct link between the federal tax cut of 2001 and state tax increases in 2003. When the federal government`s mistakes force states to raise their taxes, it not only robs Peter to pay Paul, but it hurts hard-working families and it undermines ...
Senator John Kerry
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Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward conduct the American people don`t want from their elected leaders: Abusing power. Inserting the government into our...
Senator John Kerry
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
Lord Acton
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Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
P.J. O`Rourke
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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas Jefferson
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The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men
Plato
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When the government violates the people`s rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
Marquis De Lafayette
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Good government is no substitute for self-government
Mahatma Gandhi
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Jorge Luis Borges
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