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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    Share


"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    Share

"The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols."

Shaw, George Bernard on government    Share

"Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both."

Shaw, George Bernard on government    Share

"Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on government
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"No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government."

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

Solon on government    Share

"The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you."

Themistocles on government    Share

"The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine."

Thoreau, Henry David on government    Share

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"Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government."

Thoreau, Henry David on government    Share

"That government is best which governs least."

Thoreau, Henry David on government
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"This American government -- what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will."

Thoreau, Henry David on government    Share

"The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound."

Topes, Lord Justice on government    Share

"Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."

Truman, Harry S on government
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"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."

Tuchman, Barbara on government    Share

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."

Twain, Mark on government
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"We have the best government that money can buy."

Twain, Mark on government
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"Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading."

Updike, John on government    Share

"I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone."

Updike, John on government
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"Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers."

Voltaire on government
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"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

Voltaire 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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"It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work."

Wallis, W. Allen on government    Share

"Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."

Washington, George on government
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"Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government."

Washington, George on government
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"The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place."

Welch, Robert on government
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"The monarchy is a labor intensive industry."

Wilson, Harold on government    Share

"An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country."

Wotton, Sir Henry on government    Share

"Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't."

Kocher, Gerhard on government    Share

"Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you. "

Kocher, Gerhard on government    Share

"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced."

Zappa, Frank on government
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"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."

Jefferson, Thomas on government
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"Rex 84 is a martial law plan that allows the federal government to destroy the separation of powers."

Dye, James on government    Share

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