Weak Government Quotes

• You can have a strong government and a weak people, or strong people and weak government, but you cannot have both.

  Robert Ringer

  Strong, Government, People

  Robert Ringer (2012). “The Entrepreneur: The Way Back for the U.S. Economy”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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  Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Strength, Peace, Strong

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• The greatest of all evils is a weak government

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Government, Evil, Weak

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.242, London : H. Colburn

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• A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Everybody's Political What's What? ch. 30 (1944)

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• There is no example on the planet of a successful economy with broadly shared prosperity and a shrinking, weak government.

  William J. Clinton

  Successful, Government, Shrinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the freeplay of economic forces, unified social groups become the transmitters of culture.

  Johan Huizinga

  Country, Struggle, Government

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• Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable ... People have always preferred strong government to weak government, although they certainly have no liking for anything that smacks of overly intrusive government.

  Irving Kristol

  Strong, Past, Government

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