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Quotes By subject - Starting with G - Government
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There are 36 quotes for the subject Government
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No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Work: letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792
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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Author: Plato
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Author: Aristotle
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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Author: Plato
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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Author: Albert Einstein
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Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Author: Plato
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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
Author: Mark Twain
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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
Author: Plato
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It is not good to have a rule of many.
Author: Homer
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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
Author: Plato
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Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.
Author: Mark Twain
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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Author: Tom Robbins
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
Author: Winston Churchill
Work: Hansard, November 12, 1936
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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