Memorable Government Decisions Quotes

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"The art of government is the organization of idolatry."
George Bernard Shaw
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
Ronald Reagan
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
George Washington
"The government is us; we are the government, you and I."
Theodore Roosevelt
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
Winston Churchill
"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote."
George Jean Nathan
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."
Thomas Jefferson
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"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."
Groucho Marx
"Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees, and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people."
Henry Clay
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
Thomas Jefferson
"There is no distinctly Native American criminal class. There is, however, reason to believe that the policies of the BIA have led to the creation of far too many Native Americans who are unskilled, poorly educated, and marginal to the American economy."
Senator William Proxmire
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong."
Voltaire
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
Winston Churchill
"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. "
Cicero
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
Ronald Reagan
"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."
Benjamin Franklin
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."
Winston Churchill
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
Thomas Jefferson
"A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen."
Winston Churchill
"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."
Milton Friedman
"Government is a necessary evil, but an evil nonetheless."
Thomas Paine
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"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
Louis Brandeis
"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men."
Plato
"The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general."
James Madison
"If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
Noam Chomsky

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