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  • Phyllis Mcginley Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Bill Owens Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Bob Riley Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Cal Thomas Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • John Locke Government has no other end but the preservation of Property
    Second Treatise Ch. 17
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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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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  • 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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  • Ronald Reagan Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.
    Inauguratie 1981
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Bill Maris Government is really successful when it's willing to make big, bold objectives, like, 'We're going to get to the moon.' But without leaders with big ideas, we get stuck.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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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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  • Ronald Reagan Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Thomas Paine Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Betty Williams Governments do not have the answers - indeed, quite the reversal. A lot of times, they not only do not have the answers, but they themselves are the problem. If we are committed to helping our world's children, then we must begin to create solutions from the bottom up.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Ronald Reagan Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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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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  • Arthur Hugh Clough Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market.
    Arthur Hugh Clough
    English poet (1819 - 1861)
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