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Government Quotes

"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves "

"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object"

"In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem."

"The well-being of the people is the highest law"

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

"The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax"

"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."

"If there is no justice for the people let there be no peace for the government"

"Politicians are more interested in their power"

"The great advances of civilization whether in architecture or painting in science or literature in industry or agriculture have never come from centralized government"

"A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation"

"I object on principle to doing by legislation what properly belongs to human good feeling and charity."

"No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to manage them in such a way as to convert them into special privileges"

"The office of the sovereign, be it a monarch or an assembly, consisteth in the end for which he was entrusted with the sovereign power, namely the procuration of the safety of the people."

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