Memorable Quotes About Government

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"The government is best which governs least."
Henry David Thoreau
"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
George Bernard Shaw
"That government is best which governs least."
Thomas Paine
"In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve."
Alexis de Tocqueville
"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law."
Thomas Hobbes
"The government that is the most efficient is the one that is the most transparent."
Barack Obama
"The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government."
Thomas Paine
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"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
Abraham Lincoln
"The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved."
Simón Bolívar
"A government that is run on the principle of paternalism is doomed to fail."
John Stuart Mill
"The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."
James Madison
"Whenever the government is involved in something, the first thing that you notice is that it becomes inefficient."
Ronald Reagan
"In a republic, the law is king; for no one is a law unto himself, and no man is greater than the law."
James Madison
"A society that robs an individual of the product of his labor, and thatcompels him to accept a lesser standard of living than he's entitled to, is not only a current problem but also a long-term tragedy."
Frank Chodorov
"In a corrupt country, we must go to the depths of the corruption to find the government."
Plato
"Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people."
Abraham Lincoln
"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement."
Thomas Jefferson
"The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the fount of all power."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"A great government is a government of laws, and not of men."
Daniel Webster
"A good government should protect, not only its citizens from foreign invaders, but also the civil liberties of its citizens against the government."
Harry S. Truman
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke
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"The true test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped."
Hubert H. Humphrey
"History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure."
William O. Douglas
"Good government is no substitute for self-government."
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"The government must be like a clock: a government must be correct, yet you can not see the mechanisms."
Ludwig von Mises
"The main purpose of government is to protect the social and civil freedoms of its citizens."
Jean-Paul Sartre

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