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Adrian Cronauer on government
Author: Adrian Cronauer“Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.” -Adrian Cronauer
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Bill Owens on government
Author: Bill Owens“Americans no longer look to government for economic security rather, they look to their portfolios.” -Bill Owens
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Fred Woodworth on government
Author: Fred Woodworth“Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.” -Fred Woodworth
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Lewis Mumford on government
Author: Lewis Mumford“The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.” -Lewis Mumford
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Wendell Phillips on government
Author: Wendell Phillips“To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.” -Wendell Phillips
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Kay Bailey Hutchison on government
Author: Kay Bailey Hutchison“I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.” -Kay Bailey Hutchison
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Henry Clay on government
Author: Henry Clay“Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.” -Henry Clay
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Lord Acton on government
Author: Lord Acton“The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.” -Lord Acton
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Cullen Hightower on government
Author: Cullen Hightower“The mistakes made by Congress wouldn’t be so bad if the next Congress didn’t keep trying to correct them.” -Cullen Hightower
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Wilhelm Reich on government
Author: Wilhelm Reich“The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.” -Wilhelm Reich
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Larry Ellison on government
Author: Larry Ellison“A corporation’s primary goal is to make money. Government’s primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.” -Larry Ellison
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Jorge Luis Borges on government
Author: Jorge Luis Borges“Democracy is an abuse of statistics.” -Jorge Luis Borges
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William E. Gladstone on government
Author: William E. Gladstone“Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.” -William E. Gladstone
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Alexander Woollcott on government
Author: Alexander Woollcott“I’m tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn’t work. Of course it doesn’t work. We are supposed to work it.” -Alexander Woollcott
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Sydney J. Harris on government
Author: Sydney J. Harris“Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.” -Sydney J. Harris
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Robert Orben on government
Author: Robert Orben“Washington is a place where politicians don’t know which way is up and taxes don’t know which way is down.” -Robert Orben
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William Penn on government
Author: William Penn“Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.” -William Penn
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John W. Gardner on government
Author: John W. Gardner“It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.” -John W. Gardner
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Cal Thomas on government
Author: Cal Thomas“In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.” -Cal Thomas
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Chris Rock on government
Author: Chris Rock“You don’t pay taxes – they take taxes.” -Chris Rock
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Larry Flynt on government
Author: Larry Flynt“Majority rule only works if you’re also considering individual rights. Because you can’t have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.” -Larry Flynt
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Tom Stoppard on government
Author: Tom Stoppard“It’s not the voting that’s democracy it’s the counting.” -Tom Stoppard
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John Kenneth Galbraith on government
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith“Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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James Russell Lowell on government
Author: James Russell Lowell“Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.” -James Russell Lowell
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Louis D. Brandeis on government
Author: Louis D. Brandeis“Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law it invites every man to become a law unto himself it invites anarchy.” -Louis D. Brandeis