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“It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a
government without a king.”
George Bancroft Quotes Source: History of the United States (vol. III, ch. VI)
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“Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty
universe.”
Mrs. Aphra Johnson Behn Quotes Source: Comedy of the Rounded Heads (act I, sc. 2)
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“"Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as
anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens
not to like.”
Richard Bentley Quotes Source: Declaration of Rights
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“And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him
will I give power over the nations:
And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a
potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my
Father.”
Bible Quotes Source: Revelations (ch. II, v. 26-27)
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“Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good
or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is
contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds
contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto
himself; it invites anarchy.”
Louis D. Brandeis Quotes Source: part of his dissent in the case "Olmstead v. United States", 277 U.S. 438, 485 (1928)
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“England is the mother of parliaments.”
John Bright Quotes Source: in a speech at Birmingham, England
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“I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform,--thirty years
ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party.”
John Bright Quotes Source: in a speech at Birmingham, England
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“Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as
regards its own people, is the strongest government in the world
at this hour? And for this simple reason, that it is based on
the will, and the good will, of an instructed people.”
John Bright Quotes Source: in a speech at Rochdale, England
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“So then because some towns in England are not represented,
America is to have no representative at all. They are "our
children"; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a
stone.”
John Bright Quotes Source: in a speech at Rochdale, England
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“All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every
virtue and every prudent act--is founded on compromise and
barter.”
Edmund Burke Quotes Source: Second Speech on Conciliation with America
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“And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first
scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.”
Edmund Burke Quotes Source: Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (vol. V, p. 156)
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“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will
fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible
struggle.”
Edmund Burke Quotes Source: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent
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“Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may
blunder or plunder.”
Sir Richard Francis Burton Quotes Source: Explorations of the Highroads of Brazil (I, p. 11)
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“Nothing's more dull and negligent
Than an old, lazy government,
That knows no interest of state,
But such as serves a present strait.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Miscellaneous Thoughts (l. 159)
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“A thousand years scarce serve to form a state;
An hour may lay it in the dust.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Childe Harold (canto II, st. 84)
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“We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.”
Dave Barry Quotes |
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“A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.”
Benjamin L. Hooks Quotes |
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“The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.”
William E. Borah Quotes |
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“A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.”
George Washington Quotes |
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“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.”
Edmund Burke Quotes |
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“A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.”
Boris Yeltsin Quotes |
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“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”
George Burns Quotes |
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“A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.”
Otto von Bismarck Quotes |
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“The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.”
W. E. Channing Quotes |
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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 Quotes |
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