Government Quotes - Page 17

• How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

  Ronald Reagan

  Business, Political, President

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

  James A. Garfield

  People, Diversity, Political

  "The Life of James Abram Garfield: Twentieth President of the United States". Book by Jonas Mills Bundy, 1881.

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• The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, War, Patriotic

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787”, p.263, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

  James Madison

  Ideas, People, Liberty

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.24, University of Virginia Press

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• Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Education, Sports

  "How to Get More Value Out of Your Education" by John Rampton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2013.

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• The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Art, Idolatry, Organisation

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Idolatry"

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• The happiness of society is the end of government.

  John Adams

  Happiness, Presidential, Society

  'Thoughts on Government' (1776)

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• I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Sarcastic, Time

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• But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Sacred, Remember

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• The Trilateralist Commission is international...(and)...is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateralist Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power - political, monetary, intellectual, and ecclesiastical.

  Barry Goldwater

  Order, Nwo, World Government

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• Fear is the foundation of most governments.

  John Adams

  Fear, Patriotic, Unnecessary War

  'Thoughts on Government' (1776)

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• Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

  George Washington

  Peace, War, Citizens

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• Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Political, Politics, Information

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• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Freedom, 4th Of July

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• People constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men. They may have some better man working for them, but they themselves are seldom worthy of any respect.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, People, Political

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• If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.

  Mencius

  Love Is, Opponents, Empires

  Confucius, Mencius, Ming Zuoqiu, Tso-ch'iu Ming (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.174

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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

  Commitment, Political, Benefits

  "On Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies," 22 Mar. 1775

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• They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

  Winston Churchill

  Done, Politics, Difficulty

  Sir Winston Churchill (1939). “Step by Step: 1936-1939”, Ayer Company Pub

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• A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Looks, Waiver, Chosen

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• To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Mean, Order, Law

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• 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; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.

  Thomas Paine

  Wisdom, Country, Mean

  Thomas Paine (2017). “Common Sense & The Rights of Man - The Voice of the American Revolution: Words of a Visionary That Sparked the Revolution and Remained the Core of American Democratic Principles”, p.4, Madison & Adams Press

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• Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sometimes

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.197, Graphic Arts Books

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• A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Hypocrisy, Political, Politics

  'Hansard' 17 March 1845, col. 1028. Bagehot, quoting Disraeli in 'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The House of Lords', elaborated on the theme with the words 'so much did the ideas of its "head" differ from the sensations of its "tail".'

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• Hope nothing from foreign governments. They will never be really willing to aid you until you have shown that you are strong enough to conquer without them.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Strong, Conquer, Enough

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1872). “Joseph Mazzini His Life, Writings, and Political Principles”, p.92

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