Quotes 261 till 280 of 581.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
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Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
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Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.
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Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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Memo to Congress: America's problem is not that government is too small. It's the spending, stupid!
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Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
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Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
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Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy.
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Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?
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My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.
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Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated - serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
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No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.
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No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
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No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
Van Paassen interview (1936)
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