940 private quotes tagged government

“My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.” — John F. Kennedy

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“I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.” — Voltaire

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“On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.” — Will Rogers

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“Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.” — James Madison

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“Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.” — Ronald Reagan

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“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.” — Winston Churchill

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“Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.” — Edmund Burke

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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.” — Ronald Reagan

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“It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.” — George Washington

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“By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.” — Albert Camus

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“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.” — Aristotle

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“Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.” — George Washington

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“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” — H. L. Mencken

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“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” — James Madison

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“The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.” — Voltaire

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“To rule is easy, to govern difficult.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.” — Ronald Reagan

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“The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.” — George Washington

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“The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.” — Voltaire

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“Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.” — Ronald Reagan

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“The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.” — George Washington

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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.” — George Washington

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“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” — Thomas Jefferson

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