government

1.

Governments, after all, do not last forever. Even those so frightened of the truth that they get rid of anyone who speaks it.

- Monica Whitlockv

2.

In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.

- Marx, Karl

3.

The taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government, but doesn't have to take a civil service examination.

- Reagan, Ronald

4.

Government, is the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.

- MacKenzie King

5.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

- Ruskin, John

6.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

- Keynes, John Maynard

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We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.

- John Adams

9.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

- Louis D. Brandeis

10.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

- Kennedy, John F.

11.

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

- Lincoln, Abraham

12.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

- Will Rogers

13.

Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.

- Senator Soaper

14.

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved -- commitment to a scenario.

- Baudrillard, Jean

15.

No matter whom you vote for, the Government always gets in.

16.

Society's institutions, like government, schools, the arts, and the media, corrupt naturally good individuals.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

- Machiavelli, Niccolo

18.

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

- Shaw, George Bernard

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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.

- Macaulay, Thomas B.

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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques