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  • Henry Louis Mencken Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
    Source: A Carnival of Buncombe
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ronald Reagan 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
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • George Washington Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • George Washington Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Bernard Berenson Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Bill Shuster Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Voltaire Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Bill Delahunt Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services.
    Bill Delahunt
    American lawyer and politician (1941 - )
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  • Arthur Ransome Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.
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  • Zora Neale Hurston Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
    Zora Neale Hurston
    American novelist, short story writer, folklorist and anthropologist (1891 - 1960)
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  • Sarah Ban Breathnach Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.
    Sarah Ban Breathnach
    American author and philanthropist
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  • Jonathan Edwards Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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  • Joseph Joubert Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Charles A. Stoddard Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.
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  • Banksy Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
    Banksy
    England-based anonymous street artist and political activist
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  • Beth Ditto Granny Ditto always referred to perfume as 'smell good' and for me it's an essential. I have a sweetheart who's extremely allergic to most scents, so I have to be extra careful - as well as creative - in the smell department. The key, I've found, are essential oils, which come in all kinds of 100% natural scents.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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