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How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?
Nations
Charles De Gaulle

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It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
Government
William E. Gladstone

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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Government
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Those that think must govern those that toil.
Thoughts and Thinking
Oliver Goldsmith

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A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
Government
Barry Goldwater

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Everybody except us is running for governor.
Elections
Barry Gray

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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
Government
Alexander Hamilton

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Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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Alexander Hamilton

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All good government must begin at home.
Government
H. R. Haweis

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Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
Government
A. P. Herbert

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One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
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George Herbert

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Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
Freedom
Horace

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
Government
Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
Government
David Hume

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The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
Neighbors
Hubert H. Humphrey

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I am against government by crony.
Corruption
Harold L. Ickes

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There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
Government
Andrew Jackson

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I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office
Government
Thomas Jefferson

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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Truth
Thomas Jefferson

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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Government
Thomas Jefferson

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That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
Government
Thomas Jefferson

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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Liberty
Thomas Jefferson

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The second office of this government is honorable & easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
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Thomas Jefferson

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The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
Weather
Jerome K. Jerome

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun