"I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere."

Congreve, William on secrets
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"Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds."

Congreve, William on war   

"Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure."

Congreve, William on marriage
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"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

Voltaire on government
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"There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action."

Russell, Bertrand on government   

"It is easy to rule over the good."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on government
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"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them."

Reagan, Ronald on government
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"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."

Reagan, Ronald on government
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"It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on government
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"Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin."

Conrad, Joseph on government   

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"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination."

Voltaire on government
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"In our consumer confidence surveys, we ask people whether they think government economic policy is good, fair, or poor. Increasingly, the answer we get is just plain laughter."

Schmiedeskamp, Jay on government   

"Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law."

Solon on government   

"Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost."

Buddha on zeal
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"I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing."

Goldsmith, Oliver on zeal
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"True valor lies between cowardice and rashness."

Cervantes, Miguel De on valor
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"The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority."

Calhoun, John C. on life   

"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for."

Rogers, Will on government
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"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."

Rogers, Will on government   

"The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top."

Reston, James on government   

"You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception."

Cousin, Victor on government   

"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."

Friedman, Milton on government
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"Governments never learn. Only people learn."

Friedman, Milton on government
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"It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right."

Gladstone, William E. on government
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"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on government
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"Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have."

Crockett, Davy on government
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"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced."

Einstein, Albert on government
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"There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses."

Jackson, Andrew on government   

"I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office"

Jefferson, Thomas on government
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"Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought."

Morrow, Dwight Whitney on government   

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

O'Rourke, P. J. on government   

"Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."

Paine, Thomas on government
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"Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse."

Reagan, Ronald on government
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"A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top."

Reston, James on government   

"The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised."

Calhoun, John C. on majority
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"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her."

Christie, Agatha on age and aging
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"It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter"

Churchill, Winston on fear
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"We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty."

Churchill, Winston on wealth
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"If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!"

Churchill, Winston on wives
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"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."

Churchill, Winston on wordiness
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