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The less government we have the better.
Government
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
Constitutions
Gerald R. Ford

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Truth is the glue that holds government together.
Government
Gerald R. Ford

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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
Pride
Benjamin Franklin

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Governments never learn. Only people learn.
Government
Milton Friedman

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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Government
Milton Friedman

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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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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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Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.
Government
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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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
Government
Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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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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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.
Uncategorised
Thomas Jefferson

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

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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
Government
Murray Kempton

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The basis of effective government if public confidence.
Government
John F. Kennedy

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