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“Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.”
Gerhard Kocher Quotes |
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“I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.”
Dwight David Eisenhower Quotes |
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“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.”
Winston Churchill Quotes |
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“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”
Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
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“Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.”
Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
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“In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.”
Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes |
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“Government is not the doctor. It is the disease.”
H. S. Ferns Quotes |
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“The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away.”
Ronald Reagan Quotes |
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“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.”
George Washington Quotes |
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“Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification”
Malcolm Wallop Quotes |
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“When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.”
George Pataki Quotes |
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“The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - "to spew out paper."”
Dave Barry Quotes |
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“Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.”
John Perry Barlow Quotes |
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“I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms”
Henry Louis Mencken Quotes |
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“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”
Henry Louis Mencken Quotes |
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“Despotism tempered by assassination, that is our Magna Carta.
[Fr., Le despotisme tempere par l'assassinat, c'est notre magna
charta.]”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: said by a Russian noble to Count Munster on the assassination of Paul I, emperor of Russia
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“Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring
A Church without a bishop, a State without a King.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: Puritan's Mistake
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“A government of laws, and not of men.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: Puritan's Mistake
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“Fear is the foundation of most governments.”
John Adams Quotes Source: Thoughts on Government
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“The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made
by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an
insult.”
John Quincy Adams Quotes Source: in an address to the citizens of Westmoreland County, Virginia
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“Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever
debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be,
decided among men. A resolution was passed without one
dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right
ought to be, free and independent States.”
John Quincy Adams Quotes Source: in a letter to Mrs. Adams
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“. . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to
determine whether a republican government is practicable in a
nation or not.”
John Quincy Adams Quotes Source: Diary
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“Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but
where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are
cities and walls.”
John Quincy Adams Quotes Source: Diary
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“States are great engines moving slowly.”
Francis Bacon Quotes Source: Advancement of Learning (bk. II)
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“So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.
[Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virga sive bacillum vere superius
inflexum sit.]”
Francis Bacon Quotes Source: De Sapientia Veterum (6, Pan, sive Natura)
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