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Saint Augustine on government
Author: Saint Augustine“In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?” -Saint Augustine
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Robert Half on government
Author: Robert Half“People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can’t live within its income.” -Robert Half
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Henry Ward Beecher on government
Author: Henry Ward Beecher“The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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Lily Tomlin on government
Author: Lily Tomlin“Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.” -Lily Tomlin
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on government
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe“To rule is easy, to govern difficult.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Milton Friedman on government
Author: Milton Friedman“Governments never learn. Only people learn.” -Milton Friedman
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Andrew Jackson on government
Author: Andrew Jackson“The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.” -Andrew Jackson
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James Madison on government
Author: James Madison“If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” -James Madison
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P. J. O’Rourke on government
Author: P. J. O’Rourke“Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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Thomas Paine on government
Author: Thomas Paine“The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.” -Thomas Paine
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Jonathan Swift on government
Author: Jonathan Swift“For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.” -Jonathan Swift
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Vladimir Lenin on government
Author: Vladimir Lenin“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.” -Vladimir Lenin
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Gore Vidal on government
Author: Gore Vidal“The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.” -Gore Vidal
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H. L. Mencken on government
Author: H. L. Mencken“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.” -H. L. Mencken
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Denis Diderot on government
Author: Denis Diderot“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” -Denis Diderot
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Otto von Bismarck on government
Author: Otto von Bismarck“Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.” -Otto von Bismarck
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Woodrow Wilson on government
Author: Woodrow Wilson“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.” -Woodrow Wilson
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Will Rogers on government
Author: Will Rogers“Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.” -Will Rogers
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Paul Harvey on government
Author: Paul Harvey“If ‘pro’ is the opposite of ‘con’ what is the opposite of ‘progress’?” -Paul Harvey
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Henry David Thoreau on government
Author: Henry David Thoreau“That government is best which governs least.” -Henry David Thoreau
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Benjamin Franklin on government
Author: Benjamin Franklin“Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed too severe, seldom executed.” -Benjamin Franklin
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Ronald Reagan on government
Author: Ronald Reagan“The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.” -Ronald Reagan
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Mark Twain on government
Author: Mark Twain“We have the best government that money can buy.” -Mark Twain
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Ayn Rand on government
Author: Ayn Rand“Government ‘help’ to business is just as disastrous as government persecution… the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.” -Ayn Rand