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| Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence? |
| Abraham Lincoln |
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| My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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| My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers. |
| Victor Hugo |
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| My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit, who is going to the place of his execution; so unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode f |
| George Washington |
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| Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule |
| Edward Gibbon |
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| One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father |
| George Herbert |
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| Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth. |
| Mark Twain |
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| Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for |
| Adlai E. Stevenson |
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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 |
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| So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs. |
| Elbert Hubbard |
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| That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. |
| Henry David Thoreau |
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| The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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| The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away. |
| Ronald Reagan |
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| The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. |
| John Maynard Keynes |
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| The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness |
| Niels Bohr |
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| The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid |
| Will Rogers |
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| The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government. |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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