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That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.
Government
Pittacus

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The art of government is not to let me grow stale.
Government
Napoleon Bonaparte

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The auditor is a watchdog and not a bloodhound.
Government
Lord Justice Topes

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

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Government
Voltaire

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

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The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
Government
William O. Douglas

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

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The government is us; we are the government, you and I.
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Theodore Roosevelt

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The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.
Government
Count Boytzwnburg

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

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

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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
Government
Harold Wilson

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The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away
Government
John S. Caldwell

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The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
Government
James Reston

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The supply of government exceeds demand.
Government
Lewis H. Lapham

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The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.
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Robert Welch

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The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
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Lord Melbourne

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The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.
Government
Henry Ward Beecher

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

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Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.
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Grover Cleveland

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To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.
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Comte De Mirabeau

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To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
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Nigel Lawson

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To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
Government
Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.
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Ronald Reagan

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