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I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the read more

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the industrious.

by Thomas Jefferson Found in: Government Quotes,
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Franklin Roosevelt stands like a sharply formed rock in a shapeless sea.
spoken on Book TV by a Jackson biographer.

Franklin Roosevelt stands like a sharply formed rock in a shapeless sea.
spoken on Book TV by a Jackson biographer.

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Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees.

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees.

by Boris Marshalov Found in: Government Quotes,
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Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good
or for ill, it teaches the whole people by read more

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good
or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is
contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds
contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto
himself; it invites anarchy.

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Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.

Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.

by Bernhard Berenson Found in: Government Quotes,
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Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

by Harry S. Truman Found in: Government Quotes,
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Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

by John Adams Found in: Government Quotes,
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The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made
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The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made
by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an
insult.

by John Quincy Adams Found in: Government Quotes,
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. read more

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

by George Washington Found in: Government Quotes,
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